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Renewables

  • Overview
  • Experience
  • Market recognition

Renewable energy is providing millions of people in Africa with access to electricity for the first time. In Kenya, the government aims to achieve universal access by 2020 through geothermal, hydro, wind and solar projects using a combination of grid extension, mini-grid and off-grid solutions.  

Our lawyers have experience in the renewable energy market, advising sponsors, developers, financiers and regulatory bodies on transactions across the spectrum of renewable energy technologies, including hydro, solar, onshore and offshore wind, energy-from-waste, biomass and biofuels. 

We have hands-on, practical experience of delivering each stage of a project, including: planning, permitting, joint ventures and other corporate matters, structuring equity investment, developing project documents (such as power-purchase agreements (PPAs), government letters of support, engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) and operation and maintenance (O&M) arrangements, as well as project finance.

Capabilities

  • Commercial structuring

  • Financing

  • Negotiation

  • Project agreements

  • Risk analysis and mitigation

Experience includes advising:

  • Project sponsors in two 40 MW solar power projects in Uasin Gishu County up to financial close. The projects were commissioned and are now connected to the national grid.
  • A power company on the financing and development of four (4) run-of-river hydro- electric power generation projects, up to financial close.
  • A client on the acquisition of equity in an SPV developing a 40 MW Solar Energy Project in Kericho County, Kenya. The brief involved carrying out legal due diligence on the SPV, advising on the permits, consents, licences and approvals required, reviewing the draft PPA and reviewing the share purchase agreement.
  • A developer and senior lenders on the development and construction of a 140 MW geothermal power plant and related facilities in the Rift Valley region in Kenya
  • Sponsors on the setting up and development of a 30 MW solar power project in Makindu, Makueni County, Kenya.
  • Sponsors in the setting up of a 100 MW wind energy project in Kajiado County up to financial close. The project was commissioned and is now connected to the national grid.
  • An American multinational conglomerate on the Batoka Gorge Hydro Electric Power Project in Zambia and Zimbabwe.
  • A corporate client on the development of biomass steam plants which use feedstock from sustainable material such as agricultural waste from coffee husks, macadamia shells and rice husks. The steam plants are currently being used to power up the client’s manufacturing processes in Nairobi and Kisumu.
  • A private client on the setting up of biomass energy project for captive energy.
  • Lenders on the financing of 40MW solar power project in Malindi, Kenya up to financial close. The project was commissioned and is now connected to the national grid.
  • Lenders on the financing of a 40MW photovoltaic power project in Kesses, Kenya up to financial close. The project was commissioned and is now connected to the national grid.
  • The sponsors in the setting up of a 40 MW Solar power project in Witu, Lamu County, Kenya.
  • The developers on the setting up of a 50 MW wind power project in Kajiado, Kenya. 
  • A developer on the development of 40 MW solar power project in Rumuruti, Kenya.
  • Project sponsors on the financing and development of a 7.5 MW hydropower project in Maresi, Bungoma County in Kenya.
  • Lenders on the financing of two 50 MW wind power projects in Kajiado and Kiambu Counties.
  • Lenders on a 70MW geothermal power project by an independent power producer.
  • A private client on 9 solar mini-grids situated in various counties across Kenya.
  • Ranked Band 1 in Projects & Energy (Chambers & Partners, 2025)
  • Ranked Band 1 in Banking & Finance (Chambers & Partners, 2019-2025)
  • Ranked Tier 1 in Privatisation & Projects (The Legal 500, 2019-2024)
  • Ranked Tier 1 in Banking & Finance and Capital Markets (The Legal 500, 2019 - 2024)
  • Ranked Tier 1 in Finance & Corporate (IFLR1000, 2019-2023)
  • Ranked in Projects Development (IFLR1000, 2018-2024)
  • IKM and DLA Piper awarded “Transportation and Infrastructure Team of the Year” (African Legal Awards, 2016)