Energy and Natural Resources
New Zealand’s energy and natural resources sectors are evolving rapidly as investment shifts toward renewable generation, network reinforcement and decarbonisation initiatives.
Greenwood Roche advises clients across the energy ecosystem including developers, infrastructure providers, investors and resource sector participants. Our work frequently involves large-scale infrastructure development, investment structuring, regulatory approvals and strategic land access arrangements.
Our work in this sector:
- Electricity generation and transmission projects
- Renewable energy developments, including offtake arrangements
- Petroleum and minerals exploration and mining
- Downstream gas sector transactions and regulation
- Strategic investment and joint venture structures for energy projects
- Land access
- Regulatory approvals
Experience highlights:
- Advising Transpower on property matters relating to the national grid, major transmission upgrades and new connections.
- Advising Top Energy on transmission line projects from Kaikohe to Wiroa and Wiroa to Kaitaia.
- Advising Northpower on the Pouto wind farm transmission connection project.
- Advising Wellington Electricity generally on network upgrades and customer connections.
- Advising Rio Tinto-owned New Zealand Aluminium Smelters on its electricity arrangements.
- Advising Powerco on acquisition of land interests.
- Advising Parkwind/JERANexbp on the establishment of the NZ offshore renewable energy regulatory regime and its investigations of New Zealand as a destination for offshore wind development.
- Advising Yinson Renewables on its establishment in New Zealand as an independent power producer, all landowner negotiations and its development of a portfolio of wind projects including the acquisition and development of the Mt Cass Wind Farm, as well as the structuring of a strategic investment framework with Genesis Energy for participation in a pipeline of renewable generation projects.
- Advising various Chinese solar developers on New Zealand project investigations including land acquisitions and obtaining OIO consents.
- Advising multiple petroleum E&P companies on their NZ investments including farm-in arrangements.
- Advising on minerals exploration and development for projects involving gold and rare earth minerals.
- Advising Gas Industry Company on various co-regulatory issues including acting as independent advisor.
- Advising Lodestone Energy Limited on its electricity supply contracts.
