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Next September 27, 2016 Granollers Mercat will organise in collaboration with the Clúster d’Eficiència Energètica (Energy Efficiency Cluster) and the Institut Català d’Energia (the Catalan Energy Institute) the third session of the series “Cicle Tècnic d’Energía a la Indústria” (Tecnical Cicle of Industrial Energy), which are taking place throughout the year 2016. This third session is … Continued

This article, written by Daniel Perez Rodriguez, partner of Holtrop S.L.P. Transaction & Business Law,  was originally published in Spanish in “el Periódico de la Energía” on September 8th, 2016. A history on renewables and bricks Imagine, dear reader, that you own an empty house that needs reforming, and that I have been relocated in 2007 to work in your … Continued

This article was originally published in Spanish in the “Panorama” section of www.energias-renovables.com on 6th September 2016. Piet Holtrop, founding partner of Holtrop S.L.P. Transaction & Business Law, collaborates from time to time with the magazine and also has a blog in this publication. In case you are interested in reading the Spanish version please … Continued

Who are our clients? Renewable Energies: Holtrop S.L.P. Transaction & Business Law defends the legal intereses of more than 3.500 renewable energy producers of different techologies against the many cutbacks by means of large-scale litigations with multiple claimers and only focused on regulatory changes in the Spanish Renewables sectors, being our clients both private individuals as … Continued

The informative session on market derivatives organized by APPA on 20th July in Madrid  proved to be very instructive. The focus of the seminar was on one specific type of derivative and one type of consumer, namely, swaps and renewables producers. It is well known that swaps are complex products, not only because the law says … Continued

The filmmaker César Vea, we had the pleasure to meet at the fair GENERA June 2016 in Madrid and whose short film “El camino del Sol” has already been released, begins this July to shoot his documentary film “Sol ( d) Out “. The director says that “Sol (d) Out is the story of a heist. However, this … Continued

Last July 2016 our partner Daniel Pérez Rodríguez published following article entitled “Electricity Generation and State Aid: Compatibility Is The Question” in the European State Aid Law Journal (EStAL) Quarterly, Volume 15 (issue 2, 2016), a leading journal in the field of state aid law. Following please find an extract of this publication, which in its full … Continued

Both ongoing and fresh legal proceedings  will  continue to hinder development of Spain’s  nascent  solar sector under the likely new coalition led by the conservative People’s Party (PP). Last week 6,000 small investors in Spain’s solar sector became the latest consortium to claim for damages at the Supreme Court against losses they suffered after the … Continued

Today we learned that the Supreme Court has raised a question of unconstitutionality to the Constitutional Court regarding the payment of the “Impuesto sobre el Valor de la Producción de Energía Eléctrica” (Tax about the Value of Electricity Production), which applies a 7% rate to the obtained income from the sale of electricity by the … Continued

  On 14th July 2016, UNEF, the Spanish Fotovoltaic Industry Union will organise together with COIIAS (The Official College of Industrial Engineerings of Asturias)a conference titled “Los retos de la energía fotovoltaice en Asturias” (The challences of the photovoltaic energy in Asturas). Entry to the conference is free of charge. The conference is held at the … Continued

  Although this has proven an impossible concept to grasp for certain German political leader, spending to save is actually an option, and not a bad one at all. Energy Performance Contracts (EPCs) set the framework by which installed energy efficiency measures, which are verified and monitored during the whole term of the contract, are … Continued

On June 29th, the Association of Renewable Energies (APPA) and the Spanish Energy Club (Enerclub) organise a session entitled: “A new stage for Photovoltaics” in Madrid. The session starts at 08:45 with a general vision by Arcadio Gutiérrez Zapico, General Director of the Spanish Energy Club, and Xabier Albistur, President of APPA Photovoltaic. As one of … Continued