• ELG – the best network in Projects & Energy

    February, 2024

    Energy Law Group is ranked Band 1 in Projects & Energy (Legal Network) Europe-wide by Chambers Global 2024.

  • UK energy and infrastructure

    February, 2024

    2023 delivered a raft of market and regulatory developments in the UK energy and infrastructure sectors. The UK government’s Powering Up Britain package recognised the importance of energy security, alongside affordability and decarbonisation, and a new Energy Act provided a firmer legal framework for the energy transition, including for low carbon hydrogen and Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage (CCUS). There was also considerable scrutiny of UK infrastructure as water and rail networks came under the spotlight, but opportunities for investment also emerged in the UK’s power networks, digital infrastructure and ports.

  • Danish tax treatment of grid connection costs

    January, 2024

    The ELG member Gorrissen Federspiel sharing insights about an agreement aiming to promote the establishment of solar parks and onshore wind farms concluded by the Danish government and selected parties. However, since 1 January 2023, developers have had to pay the grid connection costs themselves, which has slowed down the green transition. This has increased the start-up costs and financial needs of developers; but help may be available through tax legislation.

  • GHR advises Cemex on its new US$ 3 billion bank refinancing

    December, 2023

    Cemex, S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: CX), the global building materials and services company, successfully refinanced its US$3.0 billion syndicated Credit Agreement, extending the maturity to 2028.

  • Dismantling Obligations of Finnish Wind Farms: A Report by Hannes Snellman’s Lawyers for the Ministry of the Environment

    November, 2023

    Lately, the rapidly growing wind farm construction has sparked discussion in Finland on the end-of-life obligations related to wind turbines and whether there is an enforceable legal obligation for wind farm operators to dismantle the turbines and their foundations at the end of the lifespan of the wind turbines.

  • GHR advises Cemex on its new Mex$ 6 billion sustainability-linked long-term Notes

    October, 2023

    Congratulations to your member GHR Rechtsanwälte AG!

  • Data protection in connection with the use of smart metering systems in Switzerland

    October, 2023

    The classic electricity meter is considered to be a discon-tinued model in Switzerland, because within the frame-work of the energy strategy it was stipulated that 80 % of the measuring devices in a grid area must be intelligent measuring systems by 2027.

  • The ELG Annual Meeting

    October, 2023

    Energy Law Group members met in Zagreb to share the most recent and relevant insights on energy topics.

  • The 7th ELG Energy Event

    May, 2023

    The Energy law Group organised the 7th ELG Energy Event on May 12 in Paris with our French member firm Jeantet.