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As one of the largest and most experienced groups of energy insurance practitioners in the market, our specialist team’s presence in each key global energy hub means we can provide tailored risk management solutions to each energy sector and client.

2025 Lillehammer Energy Claims Conference

Discover how WELCAR reshaped offshore construction insurance, becoming the industry standard since 2001. Ian Curtin reflects on its success, the failure of WELCAR II, and the policy’s future in an evolving energy landscape.

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The Bankability of Chinese Turbines in the Journey to Global Net Zero Targets for Offshore Wind

Assessing Chinese wind turbines bankability as offshore wind expands to meet global net-zero targets.

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Weathering the storm: What can the solar industry do to mitigate the impact of a hardening market?

As the solar market grows, regions prone to severe convective storms face new risks. Discover effective strategies to navigate these challenges and stay ahead.

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Floating Offshore Wind: Our Roadmap to Grid Scale

The floating offshore wind industry faces a series of interconnected challenges, find out how to achieve commercial success and secure bankable insurance.

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The Twilight Era: Decommissioning Strategy in the Age of the Energy Transition

Learn about the financial, environmental, and regulatory challenges of decommissioning outdated infrastructure, and how decommissioning is crucial for maintaining corporate responsibility.

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Energy Firms Face Up to New Generation of Operational Risks

Ageing infrastructure, new technologies, and cyber intrusions are among the challenges facing a continually transforming energy sector.

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Renewable Energy Insurance Market Update

The energy insurance market is becoming more mature and developing as renewable technology improves and the need for sustainable energy grows.

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Defying Limits: Conquering Construction Challenges in Energy Projects

Whether it’s building substations or erecting wind turbines, the construction phase of an energy project includes complex risks with differing requirements dependent on the particular technology being built.

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Upstream Energy & Tax: Solace in a Sea of Uncertainty

Amid turbulent times in the North Sea energy sector, windfall tax changes and political uncertainties pose challenges for exploration and production players. Learn about tax assets' significance and how tax insurance can protect buyers in M&A transactions.

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Energy Financing: Trends and Strategies for Investors in 2023

The energy financing landscape is dynamic and heavily influenced by an array of external factors. Appetite and desire for investment have never been stronger, but financing options are complex and significant opportunity balances precariously alongside myriad risks.

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Power Sector Project Risks in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa has seen a marked increase in the number of IPP’s building and operating renewable energy projects as demand for new grid connected capacity soars.

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Renewable energy and legal indemnity: Power to the people

Traditionally, energy production in advanced economies has involved importing oil and gas, but renewable energy is bringing power closer to home.

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Renewable Energy: Project Timeline

We explore the risks and exposures from financing and site selction through construction, operation, and decomissioning.

Our renewable specialisms

Our team are continuously broadening their horizons with clients on the cutting edge of renewable energy technology.

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Digitalisation & Sustainability

The increasing necessity of cyber security in renewables is partly the consequence of a greater trend of convergence / divergence between sustainability and digitalisation. Yet an increasing trend towards a malign weaponisation of digital networks on the whole indicates that the risks to renewable asset operation and, therefore, critical infrastructure, are becoming more significant.

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Renewables’ risk-reward trade-off: Perception vs reality

As is often the case when a new techno-economic paradigm emerges, an essential part of determining the new model’s risk-reward trade-off is to adopt the right framework to comprehend its new technologies and micro/macroeconomic characteristics – this process is only just beginning for renewables.

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Demand versus Supply

"The world has never witnessed such a major energy crisis in terms of its depth and its complexity"

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Bioenergy growth is inevitable – opportunities abound but tread carefully

In a world where supply security is an ever-growing concern, the reliance on creating a diverse pool reliable of energy solutions is increasing. Can the generation of clean energy and carbon-neutral gas from organic matter be considered a suitable option?

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Insuring BECCS

Establishing the risk profile of any new technology is never an easy task. The stakes are raised further, however, when the technology is integrally – if controversially – linked to global decarbonization efforts. This is the story of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage.

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Is Desalination the answer to global water stress?

As the global population climbs, our global resources are put under increasing stress. Could desalination be the solution to global water supply?

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The trouble with Energy from Waste

Linking both circular economy and net zero goals, the UK energy-from-waste (EfW) should be vibrant. In reality, heavy losses have seen many contractors leave the market. The industry should consider alternative contract and risk-sharing models to attract them back.

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Insuring hydrogen from waste

Drawing together the benefits of green hydrogen production and sustainable waste management, is green hydrogen-from-waste the next frontier for bioenergy?

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