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Today, 6th May, we participate in this conference in Seville: 6th and 7h May 2014   WORKSHOP   Integral Eolic Project Management IV Optimization and development of the current projects   PROGRAMME   6th MAY   10:00 – Reception and coffee 10:30 – Welcome 11:00 – Energy reform in Spain: legal aspects and business development … Continued

The Committee on Petitions of the European Parliament has decided today, Thursday 20th March, to maintain open a citizens’ petition drafted by Holtrop S.L.P. as volunteer lawyers of the Plataforma por un Nuevo Modelo Energético (“Platform for a New Energy Model”). This petition was developed on a mutually agreed basis with APPA, UNEF, Protermosolar, ANPIER … Continued

  As the sponsor of this year’s Conference Dinner of the Annual EWEA Conference we would be happy to meet you on Wednesday 12 March, 20:00-23:00, at the Maritime Museum, Avinguda de les Drassanes s/n, 08001 Barcelona Enjoy a night in one of Barcelona’s best-known sights – the largest, most complete conserved shipyard in the world. The … Continued

Together with the Spanish Renewable Energy Association (APPA) and EFACEC our Firm sponsors this side event of the annual EWEA Conference, this year to be held in Barcelona. HOLTROP S.L.P Transaction & Business Law is a sponsor of this year’s EWEA Annual Conference.   The event takes place Wednesday 12 March 2014, 09:30 – 14:00 at Fira … Continued

At a conference organized by the Spanish law firm Holtrop S.L.P. in Brussels on the 5th March, representatives of the European renewables sector, MEPs and lawyers defending renewables in different Member States discussed about the future of support schemes for renewables in the European Union. The conference, which took place at Martins Hotel in Brussels, … Continued

During thecoffeebreak of the conference “The future of renewables support schemes in Europe” we presented this year’s English version of APPA’s yearly macroeconomic study on the impact of renewables energies in Spain. As always, the curves of macroeconomic cost and benefit of renewables do not intersect or, in other words: The Balance for Spain closes … Continued

In this post we will present a live blog of the different speeches of the Conference that we organized at Martin’s Hotel in Brussels about the future of renewables support schemes in the European Union.  You can find the conference program here.     9.45: Introduction by Piet Holtrop and Javier García Breva, Plataforma por … Continued

We are organizing a conference about the future of support schemes for renewable energies in Europe that will take place March the 5th  from 9h00 to 13h00 at the Martins Hotel in Brussels.  Members of the European Parliament, renewable industry associations and specialized lawyers will give their insight on the new RES objectives for 2030, … Continued

The review “CSP Today” published last friday this article by Jason Deign, which addresses the issue of the publication by the Spanish government of the details of the renewable energy remuneration scheme that will replace feed-in tariffs. The author explains why the proposed formula for remuneration after initial calculations falls far short of the promised … Continued

A few days ago, we reported in this post about the publication of the draft Order by which the compensation parameters of the already so known Installation types are approved. If any of you did have the time to take a look, you realized that the calculation of such compensation is not extremely easy, and … Continued

We were able to access the draft Ministerial Order by which the retribution parameters for certain types of generation facilities of electricity from renewable energy sources, cogeneration and waste facilities are approved. Regarding photovoltaic energy, 576 standards differentiating between the RD 661/2007 and RDL 1578/2008 are created. These standards are set in terms of power, … Continued

The Spanish government approved last year a new energy reform which affects once again the retribution of existing renewable energy installations. For that reason many foreign investors have started proceedings against the Spanish State alleging a breach of the Energy Charter Treaty. In 2011 a group of international funds decided to invoke the ECT in … Continued