“Ross Fairley is a standout lawyer with great connections and deep subject matter knowledge. Extremely affordable and generous with his time and contributions.”
Legal 500 UK, 2024
About
Ross is the firm’s Senior Partner and chairs the Strategic Board, which is responsible for setting the strategic direction of the firm. Ross also heads the firm’s Renewable Energy and Net Zero services for clients. He is a highly experienced and leading industry figure in clean energy and environmental law.
He specialises in power and revenue contracts, commercial project agreements and legal coordination as well as energy regulation. He acts for investors, utilities, government and innovative developers, bringing his decades of experience in renewables to all types of projects and schemes. These include wind (on and offshore), hydrogen, biomass, wave and tidal, solar, geothermal, biofuels, hydro, EVs, Carbon Capture and waste to energy.
Ross is qualified to practise law in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and is a member of the Burges Salmon Board responsible for strategy and markets. He chairs Renewable UK’s Strategy Forum and was previously Deputy Chair of the UK Hydrogen Energy Association and a Council Member of the United Kingdom Environmental Law Association.
He was listed in The Lawyer Hot 100 2023 for his work in renewable energy, and is in Legal 500’s Hall of Fame. He is a regular speaker and commentator on clean energy and Net Zero.
Experience
- Wind farms: Advising on projects in every UK offshore wind round and on numerous onshore wind projects across the UK.
- Green hydrogen developers: Advising on the first such UK projects, the government’s hydrogen business model and on hydrogen transport and major storage projects.
- Solar: Advising OPDE, Atrato Onsite Energy, Bluefield, Zestec and many other developers and investors on ground and roof mounted solar.
- Marine Energy: Advising on the UK’s first tidal stream projects as well as wave energy and tidal fences and proposed lagoons.
- Route to market and PPAs: Advising on numerous corporate PPAs, private wire agreements, routes to market, contracts for difference and other similar price support models for different technologies.
Credentials
- Admitted as a solicitor: England & Wales (1993); Northern Ireland (2016); Scotland (2016)
Areas of expertise
Sector focus
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Hydrogen Allocation Round 2 applications due in this week- some thoughts on next steps
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