AEEC Autumn Conference 2017
On Monday, 13 November 2017, at The Plaza Hotel in Tirana, it was held the annual Autumn Conference of AEEC. The conference was hosted by our member firm Optima Legal & Financial and moderated by AEEC Chairman Prof. Christian Held and Mr. Ilir Daci, Partner at...
Brexit Energy Insights – a joint study by Becker Büttner Held (BBH) and Shakespeare Martineau
Becker Büttner Held (BBH) and Shakespeare Martineau published on the 21 of November a joint study with the title “Brexit Energy Insights” which the same day has been discussed in a roundtable at BBH Brussels with selected experts from Great Britain and Brussels....
Removing Barriers to Electricity Storage
Battery storage is currently attracting much publicity and significant levels of investment. However, the Call for Evidence on a smart flexible energy system and the subsequent joint HM Government and Ofgem publication Smart Systems and Flexibility Plan published last...
Is Energy Different? Implications of Brexit for the Sector by Andrew Whitehead, Shakespeare Martineau
With the possible exception of nuclear, the energy sector has not been one of the Brexit battlegrounds so far, at least in the UK. Maybe that’s because it’s different to other sectors of the economy. I would suggest there might be 5 reasons for that: ...
Proposed change to Capacity Market rules will cause a potential headache for battery storage developers
In the 2016 Capacity Market auction, approximately 500 MW of battery storage projects were awarded contracts. It is anticipated that the number will increase significantly this year. However, proposed changes to the Capacity Market rules proposed by the Department for...