Renewables

As the global energy transition accelerates, investment in clean technologies is surging – from wind, solar, and hydrogen to battery storage and grid innovation.

Yet, delivering these projects means navigating tight timelines, complex permitting, evolving regulations, shifting tariffs, project suspensions, funding terminations, and climate-related risks.

HKA’s multidisciplinary expertise supports clients at every stage of their renewables journey – helping navigate risk, resolve disputes, and unlock opportunity in a rapidly changing energy environment.

Your strategic partner in the Renewable energy sector

HKA provides strategic advice and targeted support to all stakeholders in the renewables space – from investors and insurers to developers, designers, contractors, and equipment suppliers.

We add value across every phase of the project lifecycle: from feasibility, regulatory compliance, and planning, through procurement and execution (or project termination), to close-out and dispute resolution. Our expert witnesses also play a vital role in formal proceedings when claims arise.

With clean energy now representing two-thirds of global energy investment, the sector faces growing challenges. Supply chain constraints, skills shortages, and performance shortfalls are triggering disputes – compounded by extreme weather events, shifting carbon credit markets, and evolving policies, subsidies, and regulations.

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Our experience in Renewables

Supporting the full scope of renewable energy projects

HKA supports renewable energy clients on complex, high‑value projects and disputes across the energy transition. Drawing on deep sector experience and multidisciplinary expertise, we advise investors, developers, contractors, and their counsel on regulatory and governance challenges, project delivery risk, technical performance, and financial impact.

Our work spans generation, transmission, grid integration, and clean energy investment, with experts routinely engaged to provide independent analysis and resolve disputes arising from delay, disruption, defects, and evolving regulatory and market conditions.

Why HKA

A proven track record in energy and renewables. 

HKA has a long-standing reputation in the energy and natural resources sector, with deep and rapidly expanding expertise in renewables and the energy transition. 

Our services are as multi-faceted as our clients’ needs. By integrating commercial, technical, and financial disciplines, we deliver joined-up solutions that drive efficiency, clarity, and value. 

When disputes involve both causation and consequence, our multidisciplinary teams provide comprehensive assessments.  

For example:

  • Offshore cabling works – combining geotechnical and cable burial expertise with delay and quantum analysis 
  • Energy-from-waste projects – engineering specialists assess design and defects alongside quantum, delay, and damages experts 

We advise on a wide range of issues, including:

  • Commercial, Regulatory & Policy: Assessments of wholesale power markets, transmission network agreements, and energy storage frameworks.
  • Contracting Strategy: Applying global best practices to investor-backed ventures in emerging and established markets.
  • Environmental Disputes: Navigating regulatory challenges, permitting issues, land use conflicts, and environmental impacts.
  • Environment & ESG: Impact assessments, biodiversity, water management, pollution (air, land, water, noise), and the social/environmental implications of lithium and cobalt extraction.
  • Expert Witness Services: Pre-dispute advisory, investigations, case preparation, and testimony on delay, engineering, valuation, and damages—across all forums including international arbitration and litigation.
  • Investment Disputes: Including expropriation, breaches of fair and equitable treatment, and Energy Charter Treaty cases.
  • Procurement Strategy: Defining requirements, contract selection, negotiation, and contractor onboarding.
  • Programme & Project Management: Establishing PMOs, governance frameworks, and assurance processes to set projects up for success.
  • Project Claims & Disputes: Claims avoidance and resolution, technical and commercial support, delay and disruption analysis, quantum assessment, and training.
  • Risk Management: Quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis (QCRA & QSRA) during planning, pre-construction, and delivery phases.

How we can help  you

Our collaborative, expert-led approach is building lasting partnerships across the renewables sector. Clients rely on HKA’s comprehensive capabilities to manage risk, resolve disputes, and realise opportunity.

Delivering greater business certainty through expert guidance on compliance, permitting, risk, and regulatory frameworks.

Uncovering root causes and quantifying the impact of technical failures, delays, and cost overruns through multidisciplinary analysis.

Providing authoritative, impartial expert opinion and testimony in arbitration, litigation, and regulatory proceedings.

Delivering greater business certainty through expert guidance on compliance, permitting, risk, and regulatory frameworks.

Uncovering root causes and quantifying the impact of technical failures, delays, and cost overruns through multidisciplinary analysis.

Providing authoritative, impartial expert opinion and testimony in arbitration, litigation, and regulatory proceedings.

Empowering the energy transition with clarity, credibility, and cross-disciplinary expertise – HKA is your trusted partner in renewables.

Find out how we can support you in the Renewables industry

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