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Energy Law
i.a. Energy Contract Law, German and European Regulatory Law, Renewable Energies
The Deloitte Legal energy team is advising on all aspects of energy law for many years. Our client base consists of domestic and foreign energy utilities (municipal utilities, energy trading companies), (independent) power plant operators (including renewable energy power plants), network operators, energy intensive industrial companies as well as financial investors.
Our advice comprises in particular energy contract law as well as the German and European regulatory law advice. Moreover, we provide comprehensive advice with respect to all aspects of renewable energies. We have also been active in numerous large scale M&A transactions and project financings.
We regularly advice our clients with respect to the best-practice implementation of energy regulatory requirements. We also support our clients in the development of concepts as well as the system integration of innovative technical solutions, e.g. in the fields of e-mobility, intelligent metering and decentralized power production. The enforcement of our clients’ interests in court proceedings form also a part of our core business.
Our Areas of Expertise
Procurement, Supply and Storage
- Power purchase and gas supply agreements
- Gas price revision disputes
- Natural gas storage and cavern lease and O&M-Contracts
- Drafting and adjustment of gas storage agreements
- Heat and steam supply contracts
Domestic and European energy regulatory law
- Non-standardized network access
- Incentive regulation
- Pooling, individual network tariffs and special network tariffs
- Customer installations (Kundenanlagen), closed distribution systems and distribution systems
- Regulation of and contract drafting with respect to transnational systems (e.g. interconnectors)
- Tenders of electricity and gas concessions
Renewable energies and CHP
- Renewable energy surcharge (EEG-Umlage) and the respective relief (Besondere Ausgleichsregelung)
- Direct marketing of power
- Network integration of renewable energy plants (network connection, network access, feed-in and technical access terms and conditions)
- CHP-incentives and CHP-surcharge (KWK-Umlage)
Energy trading
- Domestic and international EFET-Contracts
- Development of individual trading products
- Implementation of the REMIT-requirements
Power plant operation
- Fuel contracts
- O&M contracts
- Power and heat supply contracts
- Projects for own-consumption and contracting
M&A and project finance
- Financing of pipelines, wind farms and solar farms
- Sale of conventional and renewable power plant portfolios
- Sale of system operators and integrated energy utilities
New technologies
- E-mobility and respective charging infrastructure
- Intelligent metering
- Storage technologies
- Energy efficiency
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