Piero Viganò

Practice Areas

- Renewable energy generation (hydro, solar PV, wind and biomethane)

- Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs), including trader and both physical and virtual corporate and bankable long-term offtake structures

- Biomethane Purchase Agreements

- Energy storage (utility-scale BESS, Capacity Market and MACSE auctions)

- Tolling Agreements

- Electricity and gas distribution networks, ARERA-regulated utilities, district heating

- Data centers (site selection, grid connection, energy procurement, M&A)

- EV charging infrastructure and sustainable mobility

- Public procurement and PPP arrangements pertaining to Street Lighting and to public buildings

- Energy efficiency and Energy Performance Contracts (EPC), including in public and private partnerships

- Distributed generation, self-consumption schemes and collective consumption

Career

Piero Viganò has built extensive experience advising leading utilities, IPPs, infrastructure funds, banks, facility managers, consortia, local public services companies and energy-intensive companies on energy and infrastructure M&A transactions as well as on project contracts and regulatory matters connected to public incentive schemes, regulated cashflows, concession regimes and capacity remuneration mechanisms.

Thanks to the deep knowledge of the regulatory aspects having an impact on the project cash flow, he acts also on the structuring and negotiation of bankable long-term trader and corporate - physical and virtual - PPAs, Tolling Agreements, Biomethane Purchase Agreements, supporting the construction of additional capacity.

Piero advises across the full spectrum of renewable technologies — hydroelectric, solar photovoltaic, wind, biogas and biomethane — as well as on CHP, storage, self-consumption, C&I and energy efficiency. His practice extends beyond pure energy projects into the broader infrastructure space. He regularly advises on data centre projects, district heating, EV charging infrastructure. He has significant experience in public-private partnership transactions, including in the public sector and in concessions pertaining to Street Lighting and public buildings efficiency.

Piero has authored numerous publications on the energy and infrastructure sectors and is a regular speaker at industry conferences.

Professional Memberships

Admitted to the Bar of Milan, 2009

Publications

Energy Laws and Regulations 2023 | Italy

Piero Viganò, Giuliano Proietto, Ernesto Rossi Scarpa Gregorj

in: Energy Laws and Regulations | Italy | GLI (globallegalinsights.com), 2023

Fees for hydro, “a sentence of extraordinary importance from the Tsap”

Co-author

In Quotidiano Energia 24 on 16 January 2019

RES: plants splitting: uncertainty increases due to a recent decision

Co-author

In Quotidiano Energia 24 on 5 December 2018

Languages Spoken

Italian

English

Education