Waste-to-Energy

All of these projects have been delivered on a design-build-operate-maintain or design-build-finance-operate-maintain (P3) basis. Risk allocation, performance guarantees and security mechanisms developed by Hawkins have become standard in the industry. Examples of concepts pioneered by Hawkins include mechanisms to adjust throughput and electricity production guarantees based upon the measured higher heating value of the waste and the inclusion of enhanced environmental guarantees that protect our governmental client in the event of the imposition of more stringent environmental regulations, including air emissions standards.

Our experience extends not only to greenfield projects, but to contract extensions and end of term procurements as well, and we have worked on a wide variety of mass-burn, refuse derived fuel, gasification, plasma and anaerobic digestion projects.  We strive to comprehensively and clearly describe the parties’ rights and responsibilities so that disputes are minimized and our client’s public purpose objectives are met.