May 14, 2026 By: Jenna Montesano Burns Texas continues to attract data center developers for many of the same reasons it has long attracted generation resources: land availability, a strong power market, and a generally favorable development climate. But as projects scale into the 75 MW+ range, the similarities begin to diverge. Interconnection, regulatory [...]
Long-term data center leases must be carefully structured to ensure that data center developers can develop, operate, and maintain their projects without undue interference or legal uncertainty. Data center leases will undergo intense scrutiny from financing parties, technology companies, and their teams of attorneys. This article – the second in a two-part series – highlights [...]
By: Jenna Montesano Burns March 10, 2025 Developers are often moving fast to secure land and rely on GIS parcel data to identify parcels of interest. But when it comes to recording documents on the land records, it is critical to have a valid legal description to protect your interests. What is a valid [...]
By Lauren G. Sepulveda Several bills related to the permitting, siting, and removal of battery energy storage systems (“BESS”), solar energy generation (“Solar”), and wind energy generation (“Wind”) are making their way through the Texas Legislature this session. A quick summary of key bills is below, and we will continue to monitor these as [...]
Primergy Solar LLC (Primergy) recently announced that it closed commitments for US$588 million in debt financing for the 408 MWac Ash Creek Solar project in Hill County, Texas. The company also signed a long-term power purchase agreement with Microsoft for the full capacity of the plant. Alan Cohen and Lauren Sepulveda of Stahl, Sewell, [...]
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has approved the Lesser Prairie Chicken Range-Wide Conservation Plan that Texas and four other states have worked on for years to protect the lesser prairie chicken, a rare bird whose future has been threatened by economic development — especially oil and gas drilling — in West Texas and the [...]
This week in the Texas Panhandle, workers will break ground on the largest federally owned wind farm in the country, geared to reduce dollars spent on energy by the millions at nearby Pantex, the nation’s only nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility. On secluded land about 17 miles northeast of Amarillo, workers are responding to [...]
West Texas is always searching for new water sources to keep up with the population growth and the Colorado River Municipal Water District is doing it's part to ensure there is water for the masses. Recently, the District issued a request for proposals for the acquisition of additional water supplies. "What we're looking for now [...]
Invenergy Wind LLC today announced the successful closing of construction financing for its Goldthwaite Wind Project (“Goldthwaite Wind”), which currently is in construction in Mills County, Texas. Morgan Stanley acted as the Lead Arranger, Administrative Agent, and Issuing Bank for the construction loan. The project site is located just southeast of the town of Goldthwaite, [...]
Water districts located in North Texas are awaiting a U.S. Supreme Court decision that could be announced on June 11, 2013. At issue is whether the Tarrant Regional Water District based in Fort Worth can cross the Oklahoma border to pump water available to Texas under the Red River Compact. The Compact says that when [...]
