• Swindon & Wiltshire Appointments
• Tuesday February 25 2025
• Author Name: Peter Davison

Bristol law firm appoints new head of energy

Bristol law firm Clarke Willmott has appointed Laurence Lacey as its head of energy, infrastructure, and natural resources.

Laurence, a partner in commercial property, has been at the firm since 2007 and has been involved in the energy sector since his qualification in 2003.

He began his career in 2001 at Watson, Farley & Williams focusing on green technologies including wind and the generation of power using methane from capped, disused landfill sites.

After joining Clarke Willmott, Laurence initially worked on the re-powering of wind farms, as well as supporting both developers and landowners to build new solar farms supported by the previous feed-in tariff subsidy regime.

In recent years the team’s focus has been in advising on the development, funding, acquisition and disposal of solar and battery storage projects, as well as district heating schemes, biogas generation, waste to energy and new renewable-powered hydrogen projects – a first for the firm – in Wales.

Laurence said: “We do a lot of work for energy developers as well as for house builders and property developers, as planning and legislative requirements mean that new developments need to be as low carbon as possible.”

“Alongside the development of energy projects, such as solar, battery storage and hydrogen, we also get involved in district heating schemes, including here in Bristol, and advising on the impact of some of the new credit trading schemes.”