Ups and Downs of French Energy Policy
By Sébastien Canton, Partner, BMHAVOCATS The demonstrations of the “yellow vests” movement, initially focusing on the increase of environmental taxes on fuel, and recent demonstrations for Climate have again brought the environmental and energy issues into the bright...
Successful AEEC Autumn Conference, 15 October 2018, Ljubljana, Slovenia
On 15 October 2018, a prominent conference on the topic of “Distribution networks as key infrastructure for the Energy World of the Future” was held in Ljubljana. The list of participants included representatives of leading companies and opinion leaders from many...
French PV Market on the Brink of a New Boom?
The French Government has launched the initiative #PlaceAuSoleil (literally “a way for the sun”) and Total and EDF have both announced massive investment in the PV sector in the coming years. The future seems bright for the PV market in France, yet some complications and hitches must still be ironed out.
AEEC Autumn Conference 2018: Welcome to Ljubljana …
Jadek & Pensa kindly invites AEEC members, clients and guests to Ljubljana for the AEEC Autumn Conference 2018, to be held at the Grand Hotel Union, Miklošičeva 1, Ljubljana on Monday, 15 October 2018. As in case of past AEEC conferences, also the Ljubljana...
Broad political majority behind Danish green energy agreement
On 29 June 2018, the Danish government concluded a green energy agreement with all parties in the Danish parliament. The agreement contains ten initiatives to meet the government’s ambitions for Denmark to be a low-emission country in 2050. The agreement covers the...
Statute of limitation of cartel damage claims: the German Federal Supreme Court (BGH) rules in favour of claimants
The enery sector is not spared from antitrust violations. On the contrary, in the past years the European Commission has fined several cartel agreements in this sector (e.g. Gas insulated switchgear, Power transformers, Power Cables). The question, whether damage...
Neuerungen im Schweizer Energierecht
Der Bundesrat hat das totalrevidierte Energiegesetz per 1. Januar 2018 in Kraft gesetzt. Gleichzeitig mit dem revidierten Energiegesetz werden drei neue und sechs revidierte Verordnungen im Energiebereich in Kraft gesetzt. Erhöhung Netzzuschlag Das revidierte...
AEEC Spring Conference 2018: an invitation to Dublin
The Energy team at Mason Hayes & Curran invites AEEC members, clients and guests to Dublin for the AEEC Spring Conference 2018, to be held at the Herbert Park Hotel, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 on Monday 16 April 2018. Every year, the AEEC Spring Conference serves as an...
New developments regarding the high voltage power cables cartel
Memos are sometimes very useful. This holds true also for the case of the high voltage power cable cartel. On 02/04/2014, the EU Commission imposed fines on European as well as Japanese and Korean producers of high voltage power cables. Even though quite some time has...
Brexit Insights – the Impact of Brexit on the Energy Sector
Of key relevance is the inescapable truth that the UK’s energy system is heavily integrated with that of continental Europe, and Ireland. Connected by subsea electricity interconnectors and gas pipelines, the UK’s energy security of supply has a mutual dependency on...
