Overview
Development of a successful energy project begins with diligent review of land rights issues and an understanding of how they affect project siting. Westwood’s siting and land rights professionals advise clients on a wide range of real estate matters to fully understand a site’s ownership characteristics, existing encumbrances, constraints, and regulatory requirements; allowing for a smooth and predictable siting and development process.

Team Collaboration
Westwood’s siting and land rights team has extensive experience in energy project siting, regulatory permitting and testimony, ROW and real property acquisitions, and project development. The team complements the survey and mapping groups by allowing information to transfer smoothly between the three processes, including coordination of right-of-entry (ROE) services. With industry backgrounds in renewable energy development and transmission and distribution level energy projects, we help our clients find the best approach to efficiently expedite any project.

Careful management of community relationships combined with project-specific tasks and documents allows us to represent our clients’ interests in the best possible way.

Siting & Land Rights Services

• Route siting and alternatives analysis
• Option and lease acquisition
• Regulatory permitting and testimony
• Community outreach and public information campaigns
• Real property and ROW acquisitions
• Title curative work
• GIS analysis and aerial imagery
• Lease preparation and vesting
• Property rights acquisitions - progress mapping
• Mineral ownership/operating interest reports