Opinions

In this week’s opinion article, at EnergyNews.es, I reflect on the label of “artificial intelligence”, erroneously granted to machines such as electricity meters and comment on the need to maintain “the best kindness” of collective self-consumption, free and flexible aggregation of load curves.     Click here to read the opinion article.

LaInformacion.com has published my opinion article, “What do the directive on renewable energies and semiconductors have in common?”, in which I delve into recently approved Spanish regulations and their relationship with the Directive (EU) 2018/2001.   From the entry into force of Directive 2018/2001, last December 24, 2018, the Spanish State can not approve regulations … Continued

EnergyNews.es blog has published my latest article, “Floors in PPAs and Auctions”, in which I delve into some of the issues addressed during my speech at the ‘PPA’s vs Auctions’ debate table, during the conference ‘Solar Plants in Spain: development, financing and energy future’, organized by UNEF and Soltec, last February. In it, I explain … Continued

My last article “¡Se ha planteado una cuestión prejudicial ante Luxemburgo en el IVPEE!” (A preliminary ruling in the IVPEE has been raised before the Luxembourg Court!) has been published in the Panorama section of the magazine Energías Renovables. In that article I explain that, during my visit to Luxembourg on the occasion of the … Continued

In this article, posted on my blog of the journal Energías Renovables, I make an assessment of what has been the year 2018 and the outlook for 2019. I analyse major milestones in litigation, including IVPEE, and complaints to the European Commission in Brussels. I also highlight how, at a firm level, the evolution of … Continued

The last article, “Three positive aspects and one negative aspect of the Proposed Law of reasonable profitability”, has been published in the blog of the magazine Energías Renovables, in which I present my assessments on the draft of the Law in which the Government addresses the regulation of the reasonable profitability for the next regulatory … Continued

Next Thursday, January 17th, we will move to Manresa to provide specific training on the incidence of public procurement rules in the field of biomass. In particular we will discuss the criteria to promote green public procurement introduced by Law 9/2017 of Public Sector Contracts and reservation of public procurement.   This training has been organized … Continued

On Friday, December 14th, we will attend the V General Assembly and round table on energy storage of the RIS3CAT community. Along with AEPIBAL, the Business Association of Batteries and Storage, will be present at the round table where different projects will be presented and will discuss future challenges in research and development on energy … Continued

On Thursday, December 13th, will take place at the Hall of the Palau Robert Cotxeres in Paseo de Gracia number 107, Barcelona, a key event for self-consumption: the 2018 Plenary Meeting of the taula d’impuls to l’autoconsum fotovoltaic de Catalunya . This initiative, sponsored by the ICAEN whose legal working group leads our firm, seeks … Continued

I have published in the blog “Energy as a right”, of the media “20 Minutos”, an article in which I analyze the effects of the regulatory change by which the guarantees that must be deposited for the development of new generation facilities are multiplied by four. This measure has an important impact on the development … Continued

The EnergyNews magazine has published my last article about the possibilities that are open for shared self-consumption after the approval of Royal Decree-Law 15/2018. In particular, I analyze the application of the rules of nomination and distribution of energy to shared self-consumption. The full article is available here.

My latest article “Dissidence, Opportunism, Rationality (II)” has been published in the Panorama section of the magazine Energías Renovables. The article is the second installment of that published almost five years earlier in relation to the contrariety to European law of cuts to renewable in Spain. This installment details the current status of the issue, … Continued