NEWS

  • 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.

  • GHR Energy Law Quarterly – March 2023 – The association for own consumption – or how the return to basic power supply succeeds

    April, 2023

    written by Marc Grüninger Patrizia Lorenzi

    A few months ago, the Swiss Federal Electricity Commis-sion (ElCom) had to deal with the question of whether the formation of an association for own consumption (Zusam-menschluss zum Eigenverbrauch or ZEV) would allow a return to the basic supply for the purchase of electricity, or whether it would be an abuse of rights (rechtsmiss-bräuchlich).

  • ELG Energy Event 2023 in Paris

    March, 2023

    Save the date I 12 May 2023

    Conference I Energy Law Group ENERGY EVENT, Paris