Your partners in success, blending deep legal knowledge with a genuine understanding of your needs.
Whatever your business needs, we've got the expertise to help you succeed.
Access insights that resonate with you – where current knowledge meets your ever-evolving legal and business requirements.
Training that's not just about learning, but about advancing your career.
Build a career that's as individual as you are, in an environment that celebrates your unique talents.
As one of Australia's leading law firms, Clayton Utz gives confident, innovative and incisive legal advice.
Delivering the new infrastructure needed for energy transition means rethinking risk.
Key issues
Delivery risk: following the recent exit of several key construction players in the East Coast, those remaining participants are unwilling to take project delivery risks traditionally borne by EPC contractors. Delivery risk may not be fully wrapped under delivery contracts.
Costs: cost overruns may need to be managed by flexibility in debt finance, or via additional injections of equity.
EPC-style wrap and risk: prevailing market conditions mean it might not always be commercially feasible or available, so owners and operators then seek disaggregated contracting structures. Project owners must accept risks under delivery contracts, for example relating to grid connection, site conditions and separate contractor delay, and interface and integration risks, which require active management and skilled owner-side delivery capabilities.
Technology: Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) have greater direct involvement in project delivery, but may possess substantial bargaining power and be unwilling to take project delivery risks beyond their core business.
Case Study: Stanwell Southern Renewables Zone & Central Renewables Zone Battery Projects
26/10/2023
Learn more