Green Energy Technologies
With unmatched breadth of experience across diverse and converging technologies, Foley’s Green Energy Technologies attorneys provide the full spectrum of legal services to help you navigate legal and regulatory hurdles, commercialize your innovations, and achieve profitable business growth.
Whether siting an offshore wind project, raising funds to acquire a solar PV project, or patenting a portfolio of electrochemical cell (battery) innovation, Foley is well positioned to partner with you every step of the way.
When entering a new and rapidly growing industry like cleantech, it is critical that you get well-rounded legal advice that takes into consideration a combination of your business objectives, market opportunities, and changing legal and regulatory landscape. Foley’s Green Energy Technologies attorneys offer a depth of technical experience, market knowledge, and legal know-how to help you maximize your business opportunities, protect your technologies ─ such as biofuel, water, solar, batteries, and smart grid technologies ─ and prepare for the uncertainties ahead.
When you are looking to market your technology, partnering with a provider who has the background in and understanding of your field can make all the difference.
Foley attorneys, including members of our Electronics, Mechanical & Electromechanical Technologies, and Chemical, Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Practices, as well as our Life Sciences and Energy Industry Teams, have significant educational, research, and commercial experience in a wide range of green energy fields, including:
- Agricultural biotech and chemistry
- Automotive
- Chemical engineering
- Communications systems design
- Computer programming
- Fuel cells
- Geothermal dynamics
- Industrial chemicals and biotech
- Materials science
- Metallurgy
- Nanotechnology
- Nuclear power, generation, and materials
- Photovoltaics
- Physical and natural products chemistry
- Semiconductor design
- Synthetic biology
- Wastewater management
- Wireless networking
Our attorneys provide a diverse range of technical backgrounds, enabling us to understand, first-hand, your business and technical needs. The advantage to you is having counsel who can help you get to market faster, and who will work to spot unique opportunities for you to make the most of your technological innovations. Specifically, we have experience in:
- Biofuel
- Biomass
- Carbon sequestration/storage
- Clean coal
- Energy efficient vehicles, appliances, and materials
- Fuel cells
- Geothermal
- High-performance energy storage devices
- Hydraulic fracturing
- Hydroelectric
- Recycling
- Smart grid software and sensors
- Solar
- Utility metering
- Water treatment technologies purification
- Wind