Juliet Howland’s practice focuses on project development, project financing, and mergers and acquisitions in the energy and infrastructure sector, with particular emphasis on renewable energy.
Representative Matters
- represented a sponsor in connection with the $212 million construction and term financing for the Armenia Mountain project, a 100.5 MW wind farm located in Bradford and Tioga counties, Pennsylvania
- represented a developer in connection with the $249 million construction and term financing and a bridge loan to the ITC Cash Grant from the US Department of Energy for the Windstar project, a 120 MW wind farm located in Kern County, California
- represented a sponsor in connection with the construction and term loan financing of the Mountain View IV wind project in California
- represented a sponsor in connection with both the construction and term loan financing and the tax equity financing of the Macho I wind project in New Mexico
- represented BrightSource Energy in connection with the development and financing of up to 2,600 MW of solar thermal projects in the southwest United States, including a $1.6 billion debt financing of the 392 MW Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System. The Ivanpah financing benefits from a U.S. Department of Energy loan guaranty issued under the "innovative technology" loan guaranty program, the largest such loan guaranty issued to date. When completed, this will be the largest solar project in the United States.
Ms. Howland received her B.A. magna cum laude in Environmental Studies from the University of Southern California in 2006 and her J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law in 2010, where she was a senior editor of the UCLA Law Review.
She is a member of the California Bar.
Publications
- "Not all Carbon Credits are Created Equal: The Constitution and the Cost of Regional Cap-and-Trade Market Linkage," UCLA Journal of Environment Law and Policy, 2009.