Jeremy Lite

Arizona energy and environmental law counsel

Jeremy Lite focuses on energy, utilities and environmental diligence. He brings over twenty-five years of experience to bear in assisting with renewable energy and battery project siting, financing-related diligence, and industrial, manufacturing and data center development. He works closely with his colleagues in the Real Estate and Business Law groups to guide lender, developer, commercial and industrial clients in evaluating and addressing environmental issues such as:

• Project diligence
• Energization and utility agreements
• Water resources
• Cultural resource concerns
• Related transactional complexities

• Represents lenders in evaluating solar energy projects for financing and completing necessary permitting and environmental due diligence.
• Works with renewable energy project developers on project siting, permitting, and development, including the acquisition of land rights from the Arizona State Land Department.
• Guides clients in negotiating and drafting electric, water, and wastewater utility agreements necessary to serve large-scale manufacturing facilities, data centers, and commercial development projects.
• Facilitates transactions involving contaminated property, including the preparation of agreements managing remediation obligations and liability.
• Advises clients on complying with Arizona water law and securing the transfer of water rights and wells in connection with industrial and other real property transactions.
• Assists developers in managing cultural resource issues and historic preservation requirements.
• Represents airline jet fuel consortiums in connection with environmental issues and remediation projects at major airports.

• Guided large, from-the-ground-up battery manufacturing facility in securing power and natural gas supply agreements with utilities and managing environmental issues connected with site development.
• Led Arizona and local permitting diligence in connection with numerous financing transactions for renewable power and battery energy storage system projects.
• Helped to secure land rights from the Arizona State Land Department for the development of energy facilities to support Arizona’s renewable energy infrastructure.
• Negotiated unique sustainable water use agreement for data center facility in metropolitan Phoenix area.
• Assisted developers in securing power agreements necessary to deliver critical data center capacity.
• Facilitated the conveyance and redevelopment of contaminated property by creating agreements managing liability, access, and remediation.
• Provided environmental diligence support to multi-state commercial developer in the acquisition or leasing of hundreds of properties.