Peter Nelson Email & Phone Number

A PRE-EMINENT LAWYERDEDICATED TO ENERGY, INFRASTRUCTURE & PROPERTY, AND REGULATIONWith his extensive and broad practice in the energy industry, Peter Nelson is a pre-eminent lawyer handling a wide range of advisory and transaction-based commercial and government legal work. For more than 25 years Peter has advised energy generators, energy retailers and large energy customers. He also advises on industry regulation having acted for many years for energy and infrastructure businesses, AEMO, the Victorian Government, the Essential Services Commission and others. Peter’s current practice includes: Advising renewable energy projects on network connection, PPAs, hedging and all related regulatory issues including under the National Electricity Rules and financial services laws.  Advising large energy customers on corporate PPAs. Advising on energy licensing and exemptions. Assisting clients with applications to AEMO for registration as generators, customers and intermediaries, to ASIC for Australian financial services licences and to the AER and the ESC for retail authorisations and licences. Working with retailers selling electricity to large customers and to domestic and small business customers including on their terms and conditions of sale and their compliance plans. Advising developers, owners corporations and service providers on contractual arrangements within embedded networks and on embedded network regulation. Advising on behind-the-meter solar electricity and battery arrangements.Our clients attest to Peter Nelson’s experience, legal expertise and client relationship management skills. Peter was nominated as one of Australia’s best 100 lawyers in the Australian Corporate Lawyers Association’s 2010 Legal Department Benchmarking Report, with 160 leading general counsel identifying Peter as a lawyer who would be part of their ideal firm. Peter’s dedication to the energy industry was also recognised in the prestigious Doyle's Guide to the Australian Legal Profession in 2010, and again in 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, with Peter included as a pre-eminent or leading lawyer in energy and resources and Nelson Derham Law as a leading energy and resources law firm.Advising on energy, infrastructure and regulation, Peter offers legal expertise in: Administrative Law Competition & Consumer Law Corporate Advisory Energy Law Financial Services Law Infrastructure Law Insolvency Law Litigation & ADR Mergers & Acquisitions Property Law Renewable Energy Law Regulation

Listed skills include Electricity Markets, Governance, Renewable Energy, Contract Negotiation, and 9 others.