Introduction
This is the third release of Chambers Global Practice Guide for
Alternative Energy and Power, which was launched in 2018 amidst a
transformation of the global electric energy and power industry.
The factors driving change when this guide was released in 2018
– among others, climate change, new technologies, threats to
grid security, increasingly proactive energy consumers –
continue to drive change and challenge market and regulatory
structures. Added to these, this edition of the Guide is being
released amidst the COVID-19 global pandemic, an event which is
having profound and unprecedented socioeconomic impacts.
While it is too early at this stage to predict the medium and
long-term impacts of the pandemic on the global power industry, the
pandemic is currently manifesting itself through substantial
reductions in energy demand and changes in patterns of energy
usage. Only time will tell whether these and other changes have
longer term impacts on
