Legal in Energy Transition
We solve the challenges on the path to near zero emissions.
We are what we do every day. We are a purpose-driven company: we want to mitigate the climate crisis.
We offer advisory services on all legal aspects of the energy transition.
Our practice encompasses mainly regulatory aspects, and is complemented by any other legal issues relevant to our clients.
How do
we help you?
We advise all the agents of the Spanish electricity system on any topic they may have, and beyond that any other stakeholder in energy transition in general.
Renewable energy
Wind, photovoltaic, biomass and gas, mini-hydro, cogeneration are the technologies in which we mainly operate, not only in terms of electricity generation, but also in heating and mobility.
Renewable energy
We advise project developers, wind turbine manufacturers and photovoltaic inverter manufacturers, EPCists, Engineers, Law Firms, Financial Entities, small vertically integrated companies, cooperatives, Renewable Energy Communities and Public Companies and administrations
- O&M contracts
- Supply contracts, Turn Key, EPC
- Wind and photovoltaic Co-Development
- Leasing, Renting, Project & Crowd Finance
- Access & Connection, processing & Disputes
- Town Planning
- Environmental Impact
- Processing Electricity Sector
- M&A, change of ownership
- Contracts and Rights on Locations
- Expropriations
- PPAs, Auctions, RECORE, Direct/indirect representation
- Contractual, non-contractual and remuneration disputes
Suppliers
Suppliers: B2B, Cooperative and Public, as a means of Public Administration. Public and private start-ups, and ongoing advisory services.
Suppliers
- Supply contracts
- Electricity sector processing
- M&A, change of ownership
- PPAs, mirrored bilateralization
- EMIR/REMIT coverage
- GDO
- Contractual, non-contractual and remuneration disputes
- DSO relationship, system and market operator
- Self-consumption
- Multi-marketing
- Self-supply
- Multi-channel
- Electric Mobility
Energy Communities
Project Partner in the European project Life "JALON" (UPM), Partner at BlockBattCe, AEI (CEEC and SECARTYS), as legal advisers. Guidelines for the constitution of REC, several RECs implemented.
Energy Communities
- Institutional structuring, REC as a future subject of the electricity system
- Supply contracts in REC
- Electricity Sector permitting
- PPAs, shielded bilateralization at the REC
- EMIR/REMIT coverages
- GDO
- Direct/indirect representation
- Shared self-consumption
- Electric Mobility
Electric Mobility
AEDIVE partners since its inception, we advised the ICAEN in the drafting of the PIRVEC Plan, co-founders of www.Equanimity.Energy
Electric Mobility
- Contratos de uso de superficie
- Iniciativas Privadas
- Contratos de suministro
- Plataformas de contratación
- Contratos de interoperabilidad y carga delegada
- Tramitación Sector Eléctrico
- Urbanismo
- PPAs y GDO
- Autoconsumo
Self-consumption
We led ICAEN’s self-consumption table, defended self-consumption in the European Parliament, and are part of the APPA Self-consumption Section.
Self-consumption
- Large Consumers
- IPP
- Renting, Leasing, Crowdlending contracts, etc
- Purchase and sale
- Surface use contracts
- Private Initiatives
- State Concessions
- Supply contracts
- Contracting platforms
- Electricity Sector permitting
- Urban planning
Storage and Hydrogen
AEPIBAL and AEH2, HYLAW working group and APPA storage. Consumer industrial customers and hydrogen manufacturers.
Storage and Hydrogen
- Component supply contracts
- Surface use contracts
- Integration & sector coupling
- Private Initiatives
- State Concessions
- Supply contracts
- Sectoral Processing Electrical & Industrial System
- Urban planning
- H2 and mobility
- Subject Storage
- Self-consumption & EV with Batteries
PPAs, Auctions & RECORE
Financing with PPAs, RECORE and auctions, advice to developers, banks, wind turbine manufacturers, large consumers and suppliers.
PPAs, Auctions & RECORE
- Multiple counterpart PPA framework contracts
- Financial Hedging + GDO
- Physical bilaterals / representation schemes
- Adjustment Mechanism (Gas Cap)
- Preparation for participation in Auctions
- Regulatory support at RECORE
- Litigation RECORE
Legislation & Regulation
Advice to the Government of the Balearic Islands in the drafting of its Law on Climate Change, the first in Spain, drafting order type self-consumption for ICAEN, guides of permitting for local administrations.
Legislation & Regulation
Apart from direct advice to public administrations, we participate in the Advisory Council of the CNMC, via APPA, providing our opinion in the review of proposed regulations. In this way, over the last 20 years we have contributed a large number of nuances and technical precisions to a multitude of regulations, on Access & Connection, Self-consumption, Storage and Permitting, for example.
Litigation
The proof of the cake is in eating it, if there is no other remedy we take matters to court, and we are good at it.
Litigation
We have brought litigation before local and regional courts, mainly in contractual matters, escalating it all the way to the Supreme Court of Cassation. We have extensive experience in litigation on electricity sector regulation, electricity taxation, etc., before the National Court, the Supreme Court, the Constitutional Court, the General Court of the European Union, the Court of Justice of the European Union, up to the European Court of Human Rights. We have litigated against the Spanish State and the European Commission, but also against companies in conflict with other companies or individual clients.
Latest
opinions
GENERA and SPIREC, technical sessions with Secartys and CEEC
This year we will participate two days in technical side sessions during SPIREC Congress, “Renewables for People” during GENERA. The next post is about the APPA sessions on Tuesday February 21st, here we talk about the session in which Piet Holtrop participates on Wednesday February 22nd, from 11:00 to 13:00. These sessions are organized by … Continued
SPIREC Congress technical sessions: Industrial self consumption and PPA’s: sustainable competitiveness for our companies
this year at GENERA APPA Renewables organizes several technical sessions, which are held in the context of the SPIREC Congress, in Room N111 of the “Centro de Convenciones Norte” of IFEMA (SPIREC Zone), on Tuesday, February 21st: 10:15 – Biomass strategical in the energy transition and decarbonization 11:30 – Marine Energies, the industrial development decade … Continued
XI Technical Conference, Energy transition in rural zones and the role of irrigation communities
On the 2nd of February, Piet Holtrop delivered a key note speech at this conference, which was organized by the Comunidad de Riegos del Alto Aragón CRAA(Alto Aragón Irrigation Community). CRAA is the largest irrigation community of the European Union, in terms of surface, and is a community of communities: the local irrigation communities are … Continued