Renew Legal is a solutions-focused specialist law firm servicing construction, energy, renewables, BESS, technology and infrastructure projects

Ehren Terenyi – Director, Renew Legal

Ehren has worked in the construction industry for 23 years, and the last 12 years as a lawyer advising on project agreements, contract administration and dispute resolution. He works on large scale construction, energy, and technology-construction integration projects. His extensive experience delivering practical, commercial outcomes on renewables, BESS, DCs and infrastructure projects, has helped to deliver over 10 GW of projects in the Asia Pacific region.

Getting to FID

Energy and infrastructure developers and owners

Problem Lining up development, land, procurement, offtake, connection and scheme requirements (CIS, LTES, FERM) before a project can reach FID.  Weak agreements stall the timeline, especially on split scope projects.  Inexperienced teams won’t act autonomously.

Solution End-to-end project agreement drafting and negotiation – development, land, procurement, delivery, offtake, connection and revenue arrangements, to help get projects through FID and into construction.

Experience

  • All project agreements on 16 BESS projects across Victoria, NSW, Queensland and South Australia, plus connection, revenue, CIS and FERM schemes.
  • Consultant projects advisor to two multinational BESS developers on development, land, procurement, delivery, offtake, FID / FC, SOCI, FIRB, cyber and OT requirements.
  • Development, exclusivity, options and landowner leases for a 60MW wind farm, plus investment partner tender process.
  • Supported delivery of 10GW+ of renewable, wind, BESS, off-grid renewables hubs, and hybrid hub projects across Asia Pacific.

Tenders and risk allocation

Contractors

Problem Contractors bidding on D&C, EPC, O&M and consultancy work need contracts that price risk correctly, not boilerplate that leaves them exposed on variations, defects or termination.  Principal issuing RFPs need to be able to assess the legal impact of the responses.

Solution Tender-stage contract negotiation and commercially focused departures / special conditions, so contractors bid with terms they can actually deliver.  Designing, assessing and advising on RFPs.

Experience

  • Drafted energy split scope RFPs and advised on tender responses for project developers.
  • Negotiated consultancy / D&C / O&M agreements for contractors on BESS, solar, wind, substation and data centre projects — 400MW in Victoria, 1GW+ in Queensland, plus NSW and South Australia.
  • Advised engineering contractors on tenders and contract administration for government, utility and tunnel consultancy agreements.
  • Advised an OEM on tenders for control systems and tolling infrastructure across NSW, Victoria, Singapore, ACT, Queensland, NZ, Philippines and Thailand.

Finance

Working with lenders on project visibility and delivery risk

Problem Financiers need comfort on project agreements, EPC / SI / TSA / O&M / LTSA / commissioning terms and live disputes for real risk exposure, not just boilerplate review and due diligence reports.

Solution Bankable project agreements, EPC/O&M terms, execution disputes and contract administration, giving lenders and investors a clear risk picture.

Experience

  • Advised borrowers on portfolio and project-specific financing and due diligence on 20+ Australian BESS, wind and solar farm projects.
  • Advised financiers on project agreements, EPC, O&M, execution disputes and contract administration for BESS projects around Australia, wind farms in Queensland, NSW, South Australia and Victoria, and solar farms in Queensland.

Protecting project value

Owners, operators and contractors in disputes

Problem Delay, defects, variations, termination, insolvency and security-of-payment issues threaten to erode margin or blow out completion, and dispute advice is often delayed to focus on commercial resolution.

Solution Embed the dispute strategy, work directly with project and executive teams through adjudication, expert determination, arbitration and litigation, to close out claims and reach settlement on workable terms.  Getting advice on a dispute early helps shape the options and strategy.

Experience

  • $100m+ delay and breach of contract claim against a technology JV partner on an infrastructure project.
  • Embedded full-time in a client’s project team to deliver two robotic fulfilment centres for an Australian supermarket; resolved certification, fitness-for-purpose, delay, dangerous goods, fire safety, WHS and insurance disputes, achieving settlement at completion.
  • Advised the owner throughout contentious construction, operations establishment and ongoing contract management on a design-build-operate-maintain infrastructure project.
  • Payment claims / schedules and security of payment adjudications, including calling on security and coordinating with financiers.

Additional team capacity

In-house teams and law firms

Problem Legal teams hit workload spikes, leave gaps, or need a specialist who can sit inside the project rather than advise from the outside.

Solution Embedded project counsel and in-house overflow.  Full-time on-site / in-team presence for the life of a project, or as a specialist consultant extending a law firm’s own team.

Experience

  • Full-time embedded project delivery lawyer on a two-site robotics rollout, working directly with the UK-based Group Commercial Director and Group General Counsel.
  • Transaction team legal lead through to Notice to Proceed and into contract management/operations for 30+ wind farm projects across Australia, NZ, Korea, India, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines and Vietnam.
  • Acted as project counsel through development, construction, operations for multiple BESS projects in Australia.
  • Full-time consultant senior legal counsel for an OEM negotiating equipment supply, installation, construction, and operations.
  • Fractional legal counsel for a national construction contractor, a multinational road tolling OEM, and a renewables developer.

Publications

Coming in late 2026, a chapter on strategic contract administration in a legal / project management textbook on incorporation of technology contracts into construction and infrastructure projects.