After 15 years of steadily building this area up, renewable energies today contribute indispensably to a sustainable electricity and heating supply with a positive effect on resources and environment. The meaning of these forms of generation is constantly increasing and this process will even intensify. The fast increasing of renewable energy capacities aroused by the Renewable Energy Sources Act brings up many legal problems and conflicts.

For plant operators these come up especially in the areas of conceptual design, licensing, financing and construction as well as grid connection and grid integration. Also after starting operating the plant problems may arise, may this be a wind park (onshore, offshore), a biomass plant, a water power plant, a solar park or a geothermal facility. We are advising you in any of these areas. More and more municipalities (“Stadtwerke”) see the opportunities in operating such a plant.   If you are operating a grid or are trading with electricity we accompany you dealing with the many legal duties caused by the Renewable Energy Sources Act. The fast increase of Renewable Energies is not only a technical but also an economic challenge for grid operators. Therefore the question of the legal grid connection point is being disputed just as much as the question of who bears the costs for the construction measures necessary for grid integration. Here, we advise you in negotiations as well as before the courts. If you are trading with electricity, the balancing mechanisms of the Renewable Sources Energy Act apply to you. We are also at your disposition with regard to legal questions in this area. Finally, we also advise companies with high electricity consumption and other quantity buyers with regard to area grid related problems.  Among our clients are municipal utilities acting as grid operators, facility operators and electricity traders, many independent facility operators, planning and projecting companies, management companies and crediting banks as well as companies with high electricity consumption. Consultancy to politics is also especially important.

Contact persons in this area are Dr. Martin Altrock (Berlin) and Matthias Albrecht (Munich).