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  15/01/2025

  United Kingdom

  Making progress: Ofgem publishes call for input on long-duration electricity storage cap and floor regime

  In October 2024, the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (“DESNZ”) confirmed its intention to introduce a cap and floor regime (“Regime”) to encourage investment in long-duration electricity storage (“LDES”). This decision was outlined in its response (the “Response”) to its January 2024 consultation (the “Consultation”), which aimed to address the challenges and opportunities associated with investment in LDES. It also announced that Ofgem would administer the Regime. The Response noted that Ofgem and DESNZ intend to publish...

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  07/01/2025

  United Kingdom

  The UK – Norway Green Industrial Partnership: A Collaborative Energy Transition?

  The UK Government has announced an intention to sign an agreement with Norway, establishing a Green Industrial Partnership (the “Partnership”). This agreement is expected to be signed in spring 2025. It is said to involve enhanced cooperating across a range of sectors, including future clean energy innovations, and to have the “potential to create thousands of new, skilled jobs in the UK, including by seizing on cross-border carbon capture opportunities under the North Sea”.  Assessing the specific features of the Partnership will only be possible once its terms are...

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  19/12/2024

  Reino Unido

  Hydrogen to Power - CfD/DPA/LCHA version of support planned for H2P projects

  On 9 December 2024, the UK government published in its response (the “Response”), to its 2023 consultation on the need for intervention in the ‘Hydrogen to Power’ market (the “2023 Consultation”). The government intends to de-risk investment in hydrogen to power (“H2P”) and will do so by providing a subsidy mechanism that will take the form of an H2P business model based on elements of the CCUS Dispatchable Power Agreement (“DPA”). The government also expects that in due course H2P will be able to compete with other technologies and deploy...

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  25/10/2024

  International

  No fruit from the poisonous tree – The Bavarian Highest Regional Court declines recognition of a cost award rendered in an intra-EU in­ve­s­tor-sta­te arbitration

  In a recent decision (order of 13 September 2024 – 11 Sch 146/23), the Bavarian Highest Regional Court (BayOblG) ruled on the recognition of an arbitral award on costs that had been rendered in an arbitration conducted pursuant to the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules and administered by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. The proceedings had been initiated by German investors against the Czech Republic under the Energy Charter Treaty and the bilateral investment treaty between the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic and Germany. The arbitral tribunal had assumed jurisdiction but dismissed...

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  18/10/2024

  United Kingdom

  Long duration energy storage - Government Response

  The Government has now published its much anticipated response (the “Response”) to its long duration electricity storage consultation (the “Consultation”), which was published on 9 January 2024. The policy framework envisaged by the Consultation and the Response aims to address the challenges and opportunities associated with investment into long duration electricity storage (“LDES”). Our previous LawNow article on the Consultation can be found here.As well as confirming that the Government will proceed with the proposed cap and floor scheme, the Response confirms...

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  04/10/2024

  Bulgaria

  Bulgaria offers additional support for wind projects and new BESS regulations

  The Bulgarian Energy Regulator adopted amendments to the Grid Connection Ordinance No 6, introduced earlier this year, which should provide more flexibility in the application process, greater support for wind projects, and further regulation of battery energy storage systems (BESS).The changes, which were promulgated in the State Gazette on 4 October, fall under the following four main topics that together substantially change the existing legal environment.1. According to the changes, grid connection can be initiated on an additional three new grounds:Preliminary land purchase or a right to build...

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