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Provided by Zhijian Ge

Greater China Region

Practice Areas

Power and Energy Project Development and Construction

Investment and M&A of Renewable Energy Projects

Research on Policies and Regulations of Power Sales Reform

Professional Memberships

Expert in Energy Regulation Expert Database of National Energy Administration.

Deputy Director of Yangtze River Energy Committee.

Specially Appointed Expert at Electric Power Industry Expert Think Tank of North China Electric Power University.

Specially Appointed Professor at Environmental Resources and Energy Law Research Center of Zhejiang University.

Clients

State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC), Brookfield, Sembcorp, CLP Holdings, Shell, China Three Gorges Corporation, Guangdong Energy Group, Shenergy Group.

Work Highlights

Advised Brookfield on its acquisition of wind and photovoltaic assets package.

Advised Sembcorp on its acquisition of Imperial Garden renewable energy assets package.

Advised Shell on its acquisition of BYD charging piles in Shenzhen.

Advised China Three Gorges Corporation on its serial acquisitions of wind and photovoltaic projects

Advised CLP Holdings on the M&A of Jiangsu photovoltaic assets package.

Advised SPIC Shanghai Electric Power Co., Ltd on its acquisition of 300MW Tongwei wind power project.

Languages Spoken

Chinese & English

Experience

Mr. Zhijian Ge is a partner of Sunshine Law Firm, the head of the Renewable Energy Department, and a researcher at the Firm’s Energy Resource Environment Research Center (ERE). Mr. Ge has long been engaged in legal services for renewable energy project development and investment. He specializes in M&A of renewable energy projects, resolution of renewable energy project equity disputes, resolution of renewable energy project construction engineering contract disputes, and is one of the earliest lawyers engaged in legal services related to photovoltaic and wind power investment and M&A in China. So far, the total installed capacity of renewable energy projects Mr. Ge has served exceeds 100GW, covering various types of projects related to centralized wind power, centralized photovoltaic, distributed photovoltaic, dispersed wind power, and charging pile. Mr. Ge has long focused and engaged in practices related to power system reforms, and has abundant practical experience in gas turbine power generation projects, cogeneration projects, power market trading projects, incremental distribution network investment, M&A of existing distribution networks, large data center and cloud computing project investment, power sales company dispute resolution, etc.

Major clients served by Mr. Zhijian Ge include state-owned energy investment groups, EPC owners, financial leasing companies, foreign energy investment enterprises, renewable energy industry investment funds, etc. Mr. Ge has participated in the revision of the Measures for the Regulatory of Power Supply by the National Energy Administration (NEA) and researches commissioned by NEA on power sales side reforms, cultivation of diverse power sales entities, as well as the amendments to the Electric Power Law. He also involved in the research commissioned by NEA Southern Regulatory Bureau on establishment of a credit evaluation system for power market entities, and the research commissioned by NEA East China Regulatory Bureau on power sales side reforms and supervision, along with other NEA projects and researches.

Awards

Greater China "Energy & Natural Resources" Field "Up and Coming" Lawyer

Chambers & Partners

2023

Outstanding Individual of "Public Law Education in the Fifth Five-Year Period"

Ministry of Justice

Outstanding Individual in Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction During the Eleventh Five-Year Plan

Shanghai Government

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