Energy

The Deloitte Legal energy team is advising on all aspects of energy law for many years. Our client base consists of domestic and foreign energy utilities (municipal utilities, energy trading companies), (independent) power plant operators (including renewable energy power plants), network operators, energy intensive industrial companies as well as financial investors.

 

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Our advice comprises in particular energy contract law as well as the German and European regulatory law advice. Moreover, we provide comprehensive advice with respect to all aspects of renewable energies. We have also been active in numerous large scale M&A transactions and project financings.

We regularly advice our clients with respect to the best-practice implementation of energy regulatory requirements. We also support our clients in the development of concepts as well as the system integration of innovative technical solutions, e.g. in the fields of e-mobility, intelligent metering and decentralized power production. The enforcement of our clients’ interests in court proceedings form also a part of our core business.

Our Areas of Expertise

  • Fuel supply contracts, energy supply contracts (electricity, gas, district heating)
  • Joint venture, cooperation agreements, power plant operating company
  • Operational management contracts
  • Comprehensive advice on the regulatory framework for power plant operation, in particular the grid connection, connection usage and grid fee situation
  • Supporting the transition from conventional generators to green electricity producers
  • Connecting modern technologies such as hydrogen generation and e-fuel generation to conventional power plant operation
  • Advice on grid situations in the large power plant sector
  • Representation of interests vis-à-vis the upstream grid operator, grid fees, grid connection and disputes
  • Comprehensive regulatory advice on RE plants
  • Legal support for plant construction (contracts, securing land, line rights, grid connection)
  • Green PPAs
  • Modern energy products, combination with storage, connection of electrolyzer, etc.
  • CHP funding and CHP levy
  • Green PPAs for supplying electricity to the electrolyzer
  • Regulatory structuring of Greenhouse gas-quota-capable hydrogen production situations
  • Hydrogen supply contracts
  • Comprehensive advice on hydrogen fuel station situations including contract design
  • Advice on hydrogen fuel stations in public transport in terms of regulatory, procurement and contractual law
  • Storage operation contracts
  • Comprehensive regulatory advice on storage situations (gas/electricity)
  • Advice on the use of storage for grid services and energy products (peak shaving etc.)
  • Combination of storage with RE systems
  • Storage use in industrial park situations
  • Grid services under storage use
  • Comprehensive regulatory advice including grid usage fee issues
  • Representation of industrial clients
  • Transactions in the grid sector
  • Joint ventures, cooperation agreements with grid operators
  • Formation of grid operating companies, merger of grids, etc.
  • Compliance in grid operation (KRITIS)
  • Unbundling issues
  • Disputes with grid users and grid connection applicants
  • Regulatory, energy law advice on the Hydrogen core grid including financing aspects
  • PPAs
  • Electricity, gas and heat supply contracts
  • Wholesale energy products including regulation, REMIT, EnWG, financial market regulation (KWG)
  • Structuring of energy trading products, contract design
  • General terms and conditions of sale for energy companies
  • Direct marketing
  • Legal advice on energy procurement for large industrial consumers
  • Drafting supply contracts for electricity, gas, district heating, hydrogen
  • Municipal utility cooperations, mergers and municipal utility lease models
  • Designing and financing the municipal heating transition (Wärmewende)
  • Drafting energy purchasing and sales contracts
  • Advice on concession procedures and concession agreements for electricity, gas, district heating, water (rights of way)
  • Advice on energy purchase agreements
  • Structuring municipal utility situations, drafting and negotiating contracts
  • Contracting models for municipal facilities
  • Decentralized generation solutions, energy self-supply models
  • Comprehensive regulatory advice, grid connection, grid fee issues
  • Energy purchase agreements
  • Modern technologies, storage solutions, hydrogen, utilization of industrial waste heat
  • Advice on tenant electricity models including contract design
  • RE systems in residential buildings
  • Decentralized energy supply solutions in residential buildings
  • Purchase contracts for electricity, gas, district heating
  • AVBFernwärmeV, price adjustment issues in the district heating sector
  • Advice on transactions in the energy sector: power plants, renewable energy plants, grids
  • Comprehensive energy law due diligence (on the buyer and seller side)
  • Drafting and negotiation of transaction agreements (asset and share deal)
  • Joint venture, cooperation agreements
  • Measures under the Transformation Act (UmwG)
  • Comprehensive advice on the regulatory framework in the area of environmental protection, sustainability (BImSchG, KrWG, EEG, REACH etc.)
  • Compliance advice for importers, dealers, industry in the area of environment and sustainability (e.g. BattG and ElektroG)
  • Energy efficiency - legal aspects
  • EU taxonomy, BImSchG, THG, BEHG, EU-ETS
  • Legal support and representation in legal disputes (with authorities or private third parties) with an energy law background
  • Civil and administrative law disputes
  • Representation in arbitration proceedings
  • Charging station infrastructure, regulatory advice and contract drafting (EEG, LIG, LSV etc.)

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Dr. Torsten Wielsch

Dr. Torsten Wielsch

Partner | Regulatory & Compliance | Lead Energy Law
+49 211 877 201