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Government adopts amendments to speed up expansion of offshore wind power

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Germany
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  • January 30 2013

Following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011, the German government under Chancellor Angela Merkel made the fundamental policy decision to

More alternative PPA structures seem to develop - are we seeing a paradigm change?

  • Kromann Reumert
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  • European Union, Germany
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  • November 9 2012

Just a few years ago, almost all European renewable energy power purchase agreements (PPA) were based on fixed prices and an off-take obligation by the grid operator

Shale gas update UK, Algeria, USA, Poland, Canada, China, Ukraine, Germany and India

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • Algeria, Canada, China, Germany, India, Poland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA
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  • October 26 2012

There has been continued debate in the UK about the method of hydraulic fracturing since the Department of Energy and Climate Change (“DECC”) published an independent export’s report recommending measures to mitigate the risk of seismic tremors from hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) methods in April

Commission approves German acquisition creating renewable energy joint venture

  • Mayer Brown LLP
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  • Germany
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  • October 11 2011

On 5 October 2011, the Commission approved an acquisition by two German companies of joint control of a renewable energy fund

German hydraulic fracking regulation

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Germany
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  • March 4 2013

Germany's proposed changes to mining projects and water regulations to address hydraulic fracturing are drawing opposition from environmentalists

German Federal Court of Justice (BGH): on the requirement of "exclusively" mounting a PV system on the side or the top of a building

  • Bird & Bird
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  • Germany
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  • May 31 2011

According to a judgment of the German Federal Court of Justice dated February 9, 2011 (BGH, file number VIII ZR 3510) a higher claim to remuneration for energy fed-in from systems which are exclusively mounted on the side or the top of a building (sec.11 (2) sentence 1 German Renewable Energies Act (EEG) 2004) is not at hand if the PV system is mounted on a steel pole which, in turn, is merely connected with a wall of the building by screws and dowels

The EEG system under German tax law

  • Bird & Bird
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  • Germany
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  • June 30 2011

The German Renewable Energy Act ("EEG") came into force in 2000 and allows German residents to become energy producers by installing renewable energy generators and to sell electricity to the grid

German draft CCS law stopped and highly disputed

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • Germany
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  • August 31 2009

On 1 April 2009 the German Federal Government passed a draft for a law relating to CCS measures (the German CCS Law

Fracking new legal framework proposed

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • Germany
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  • April 3 2013

The German Federal Ministry for the Environment and the Federal Ministry of Economics have jointly proposed a draft legal framework for the potential

Firm wins case at German Federal Labour Court after ECJ ruling on TUPE

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union, Germany
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  • November 30 2011

A team from our Frankfurt office has won a long-running transfer of undertakings case, Klarenberg v Minteq International GmbH