Darin Lowder

Experience

Darin Lowder efficiently addresses clients’ unique challenges when developing and financing renewable, alternative, and conventional energy projects.

A partner and business lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP, he is a member of the firm’s Finance Practice Group, the Energy Sector, and the firm’s Electrified Mobility Initiative. Darin focuses his practice on energy, project finance, project development, electric vehicle infrastructure innovation and development, and related tax and public financing. He focuses on incorporating risk mitigants such as the growing energy-related insurance products and public-private partnerships (P3) as part of the ownership and financing structures evolving in this space.

Darin has unique experience representing lenders, other financing parties, investors, and sponsors in innovative financing structures for P3 energy project financings, private placements, and bank and non-bank lending facilities. He has assisted clients with utility-scale, residential and commercial, and industrial solar power projects (including for community solar power projects incorporating energy storage components), energy storage projects, electric vehicle deployment and related electrified mobility infrastructure projects, and large-scale wind projects in addition to his familiarity with other energy project technologies including offshore wind development, LNG terminals, combined heat and power/district heating and cooling projects, biomass and biofuel projects, and other energy and alternative energy technologies.

Darin has negotiated innovative energy output and investment tax credit insurance policies for solar power projects, helped to finance numerous community solar and other distributed generation portfolios, and managed diligence efforts, financing negotiations, and documentation for large utility scale renewable and conventional fuel projects. He also regularly represents lenders in other significant non-recourse project finance transactions.

He speaks regularly on project financing, structuring renewable energy transactions, negotiating power purchase agreements, and related community solar issues. In the past several years, he has assisted clients on projects totaling over 7,000 MW (7 gigawatts) worth more than US$5.8 billion.