aura Kiwelu is a projects, renewables and carbon finance lawyer based in London, with a particular focus on Africa, the energy transition and the move to a low carbon economy.
Laura has advised on several first of a kind and other landmark projects and initiatives in Africa, including first in country solar PV projects in Malawi (incorporating battery energy storage), Botswana, Rwanda, Zimbabwe and Kenya, and from 2014 to 2018 was based in Tanzania.
She has also advised on a range of private power supply arrangements, transmission and distribution projects and off-grid electrification projects. Her power sector experience is broad and includes advising on renewable power purchase agreements with corporate offtakers and power trading.
Laura advises on a range of carbon finance and carbon credit offtake transactions, particularly those in the voluntary carbon markets and involving nature based solutions.
Earlier in her career Laura spent three years at a major merchant power generation plant in the UK advising on power, gas and carbon trading.