State University of New York
Will New York’s Indexed Payments for Tier 1 Renewable Energy Credits (“IRECs”) Hurt It’s Voluntary Corporate and Industrial (“C&I”) Renewable Energy Market?
Spurred by an imperative for durable energy offtake, long-term price certainty, improving project economics, and corporate social responsibility to combat climate change, corporate and non-utility industrial (“C&I”) buyers of renewable...Read more

Kingsley Osei
Lead Project Counsel, State University of New York, USA
Negotiating Commercial Terms and Mitigating Risks in Virtual Power Purchase Agreements in The United States
In 2019, commercial and industrial purchasers (C&I), particularly in the United States (U.S.), signed record renewable energy deals with third-party developers through power purchase agreements. Worldwide contracts that were signed...Read more

Kingsley Osei
Lead Project Counsel, State University of New York, USA
Mitigating Risks of Privately Financed Power Projects in
Sub-Sahara Africa ('SSA')
In 2014, the forty-nine Sub-Sahara Africa (“SSA”) countries, with a combined population of more than 800 million, had an installed electric power generation capacity of 92 Gigawatts (GW). This figure...Read more

Kingsley Osei
Lead Project Counsel, State University of New York, USA
Vigorous Pursuit, Feeble Results: Advocating Feasible Policy Options to Past & Present Anti-Offshoring Legislative Initiatives at State & Federal Levels in the United States
The term offshoring is sometimes used interchangeably with outsourcing, but the former is only a variant of the latter. “Outsourcing often refers to the transfer of a support function traditionally...Read more

Kingsley Osei
Lead Project Counsel, State University of New York, USA
Exploring Policy Alternatives to Excluding State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) From Millennium Challenge Corporation Funded Contracts in Africa
Under the Millennium Challenge Act (MCA) the United States government (U.S.) provides eligible countries , with bilateral assistance to fund poverty alleviation programs and developmental projects through the Millennium...Read more

Kingsley Osei
Lead Project Counsel, State University of New York, USA