About Danielle Jones
Dani is an energy specialist who advises on green energy infrastructure developments, acquisitions and divestments, and complex energy contracting. As a leading authority on Australia’s BESS offtake market, she combines first‑to‑market experience with sharp insights into the commercial drivers shaping energy transactions.
Dani’s relevant experience includes:
Energy contracting:
- BESS/hybrid offtake arrangements: advising both developers and offtakers in relation to innovative offtaking structures from facilities with a storage component, including virtual tolling agreements, physical tolling agreements, capacity swap and revenue sharing arrangements, and sub-meter swaps (eg advising ENGIE on the first 100% virtual storage agreement to be entirely delinked from a physical battery asset)
- Capacity Investment Scheme, access rights and LTESA tenders: advising clients on their bids to secure Renewable Energy Zone access rights and underwriting support agreements, including from an initial 'go / no go' decision through to submission of the bids (eg advising Lightsource bp on its three successful CISA bids in the NEM-wide generation tender)
- Corporate PPAs: advising clients across a range of industries in relation to corporate power purchase agreements with green energy facilities, and acting for both the buyer and the seller (including Goldwind, Genex, Newcrest, CBA, Orora, Victorian water corporations and Southern Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils)
- Energy and Green Product Trades: advising both sellers and buyers, including Zen Energy and Alinta, in relation to reallocations, green product trades and energy trades.
Acquisitions and divestments:
- AGL: on the establishment and recent divestment of the Powering Australian Renewables Fund (now Tilt Renewables)
- ZEN Energy: on the creation of ZEBRE, a battery and solar investment platform, with HDRE
- Brookfield / EIG: on its proposed acquisition of Origin Energy
- Meridian Energy: on the $740m divestment of its Australian energy business to Shell and Infrastructure Capital Group
- John Laing: on the $285m sale of its Australian wind farm portfolio to First Sentier Investors.
Green energy infrastructure development projects:
- Engie / Eku: on the development of the first and second stages of its utility-scale batteries at Hazelwood
- Energy Corporation of NSW: on the procurement of the 850MW Waratah Super Battery, as part of the NSW Government’s Electricity Infrastructure Investment Roadmap
- Acciona: on the development of the 923MW Macintyre Wind Farm project in Queensland
- Westcoast Wind: in relation to the development and divestment of the 109MW Granville Harbour Wind Farm in Tasmania.