Energy and renewable energy law
The most important specialization of the law firm is broadly understood energy law
We provide legal assistance primarily in the field of energy law in its broadest sense. We help you to understand the often very complicated and technical regulations that energy companies have to apply, including specific European law regulations (directives, so-called network codes and other acts).
We advise, among others, companies in the electricity, gas and district heating industries. We particularly specialise in legal advice on renewable energy sources, including hydropower, biomethane and hydrogen. We also assist consumers, including large energy-intensive users. We can also advise on energy efficiency, electro-mobility and cogeneration.
Examples of the services offered by the Firm are presented below.
Natural gas
- The Firm assists its clients in obtaining concessions and other decisions authorising natural gas extraction, distribution, trading or storage activities
- The Firm drafts and provides opinions on contracts, general terms and conditions of contracts and rules concerning transmission, distribution or trade in natural gas
- The Firm provides legal assistance in the process of preparing and issuing opinions on codes for natural gas networks and facilities
- The Firm advises or represents the client in tariff regulation procedures before the President of the Energy Regulatory Office
- The Firm specialises in regulatory consultancy for enterprises carrying out activity in the field of gas fuels trade
- The Firm provides legal assistance with regard to the implementation of the obligation to maintain stocks of natural gas and the principles of conduct in situations of threat to gas security
- The firm provides legal assistance on European law relating to the natural gas market, including Directive 2009/2009/73/EC and Regulation 715/2009
- The Firm provides specialist advice on the EU’s so-called gas network codes, including the codes on balancing (BAL NC), tariffs (TAR NC) and capacity reservation (CAM NC)
- The Firm advises on the procedure for changing natural gas suppliers
- We provide legal assistance regarding regulations aimed at reducing methane emissions
- The Firm provides legal assistance regarding the provisions of the REMIT on gaseous fuels, including proceedings conducted by the President of the Energy Regulatory Office
LNG
- The Firm provides assistance with regard to legal aspects of transport as well as liquefaction and regasification of LNG
- The Firm prepares and provides opinions on contracts and rules related to the conduct of business in the LNG sector
- The Firm provides advice in the investment process of LNG regasification terminals
- The Firm specialises in regulations relating to REMIT obligations for LNG companies
Biogas, agricultural biogas and biomethane and hydrogen
As for biogas, agricultural biogas and biomethane regulations, the Firm:
- The Firm provides legal advice on the regulation of the production, marketing and shipping of biogas and biomethane
- The Firm provides legal advice on the investment process for biogas, agricultural biogas and biomethane facilities
- The Firm specialises in issues related to the support system for biomethane plants
- The Firm provides legal advice in proceedings for grid connection of biomethane plants
- The Firm assists its clients in obtaining licenses and other decisions authorising the conduct of activities in the field of generation, conversion, transmission, distribution and trading of hydrogen
- The Firm prepares and gives its opinion on hydrogen network code
- The Firm provides legal assistance to entities which are or intend to be active in the distribution or transmission of hydrogen
- The Firm assists in matters relating to the connection of facilities to hydrogen networks
- The Firm advises its clients on the principles of operation of hydrogen charging stations
- The Firm specialises in issues related to obtaining guarantees of origin for biogas, agricultural biogas, biomethane and renewable hydrogen
Electricity
- The Firm assists in obtaining concessions and other decisions authorising the conduct of activities in the field of generation, distribution, storage and trading of electricity
- The Firm prepares and gives its opinion on contracts related to the distribution, generation, trading and storage of electricity, comprehensive agreements, general terms and conditions of contracts, rules and other contracts necessary to conduct business in the electric power industry
- The Firm provides regulatory advice to companies operating in the field of electricity trading
- The Firm provides legal assistance in the preparation and evaluation of electricity network codes
- The Firm provides specialist advice on capacity allocation and congestion management (Regulation 2015/1222)
- The Firm provides legal assistance on long-term capacity allocation issues (Regulation 2016/1719)
- The Firm provides advice on the provisions of Directive 2019/944 and Regulation 2019/943 on the internal market for electricity
- The Firm provides advice on the grid connection of high voltage direct current systems and energy park modules with direct current connection (Regulation 2016/1447) and the grid connection of generators (Regulation 2016/631)
- The Firm specialises in issues relating to aggregation and the operation of aggregators, partnership energy trading and dynamic pricing
- The Firm advises or represents the client in tariff regulation procedures before the President of the Energy Regulatory Office
- The Firm provides specialist advice on the regulation of the Central Energy Market Information System (CSIRE) and on terms and conditions related to balancing
- The Firm provides legal assistance with respect to the implementation of obligations under the REMIT in the electricity sector
- The Firm advises on the procedure for changing electricity suppliers
- The Firm also assists electricity consumers, including consumers and self-consumers
- The Firm provides advice on specialist issues relating to remote reading meters for electricity consumption.
Capacity market
- The Firm advises on issues related to the capacity certification and auction procedure and the implementation of the capacity obligation
- The Firm prepares and gives its opinion on capacity market agreements
- The Firm provides advisory services related to the rules of the capacity market
- The Firm assists its clients in proceedings relating to administrative fines for violations of the Polish Capacity Market Act and other proceedings relating to this issue
Electro-mobility
- The Firm provides assistance on the legal aspects of the operation of charging stations and electric power supply points
- The Firm provides advice on the operation of natural gas charging stations, liquefied natural gas bunkering point and hydrogen stations
- The Firm provides legal assistance on issues relating to information obligations concerning alternative fuels
- We also assist our clients in proceedings involving administrative fines for violations of the Electro-mobility Act
Renewable energy sources
- The Firm assists its clients in obtaining concessions or registrations and other decisions authorising the production of energy in a renewable energy source
- We advise on obtaining and submitting certificates of origin for renewable electricity (green and blue certificates)
- The Firm also provides legal assistance to self-consumers, including virtual and collective self-consumers
- We provide legal assistance with regard to direct line regulations and the connection at one point of various renewable energy source facilities (cable pooling)
- The Firm specialises in issues related to the establishment and ongoing operation of citizen energy communities, energy cooperatives and energy clusters
- The Firm provides advice on participation in auctions for renewable energy facilities
- The Firm assists its clients with issues related to the operation of FiT/FiP systems
- The Firm provides legal assistance in obtaining support for biomethane facilities
- The Firm also advises on obtaining and redeeming guarantees of origin for RES energy
- The Firm prepares and gives opinions on land lease agreements for renewable energy source facilities and other agreements related to the investment process in the RES sector
- The Firm prepares and provides opinions on (Corporate) Power Purchase Agreements (PPA/CPPA)
- The Firm provides legal assistance with regard to operating support for RES facilities for which 15-year support period and support for modernised facilities are about to expire
- The Firm provides advice on issues relating to hybrid RES installations
- We assist our clients on issues related to electricity generation in offshore wind farms
Liquid fuels (oil and biofuels):
- The Firm provides assistance in obtaining licenses and other decisions authorising the production, shipping and trading of liquid fuels
- We advise our clients on inspections carried out pursuant to the Act on the fuel quality monitoring and control system
- We offer legal assistance with regard to obtaining an entry in the register of entities importing bio-components, the performance of activities covered by the entry and the implementation of the National Indicative Target
- We assist our clients in the fulfilment of information obligations by entities trading in bio-components
- We provide advice on matters related to the obligation to maintain stocks of crude oil and petroleum products
District heating
- We assist our clients in obtaining concessions and other decisions authorising the conduct of activity within the scope of generation, transmission, distribution and trading of heat
- The Firm advises or represents the client in tariff regulation procedures conducted by the President of the Energy Regulatory Office
- The Firm prepares and issues opinions on contracts, general terms and conditions and rules related to the conduct of business activity in the district heat sector
- The Firm provides legal assistance with regard to the conditions for obtaining funds for the development of heating and cooling systems, in particular for energy efficient systems
- We assist our clients in issues related to connection and disconnection from the district heating network
- We provide legal assistance with regard to the obligation to purchase heat from renewable energy source facilities
Energy efficiency and cogeneration
- Our Firm specialises in advising on projects improving energy efficiency
- The Firm provides legal assistance in the implementation of non-refundable subsidy programmes to co-finance energy efficiency projects
- The Firm also provides advice on obtaining and submitting energy efficiency certificates
- We advise our clients on support for electricity generation in high-efficiency cogeneration
- Our Firm provides advisory services regarding obtaining guarantees of origin for electricity from high-efficiency cogeneration
Energy-intensive users
- The Firm provides legal assistance with regard to obtaining the status of an energy-intensive user
- We advise our clients on the fulfilment of obligations, including reporting obligations imposed on energy-intensive users
- The Firm provides advice on obtaining an exemption or limitation of the obligations imposed on energy-intensive users
Check out other specializations
The practice of the law firm focuses on several specialized areas of law
Law on protection of the environment and climate change
Environmental protection, waste management, water law, nature conservation, climate change
Construction and zoning Law
Construction, spatial planning, real estate management, protection of historical sites
Competition law and state aid
Antitrust law, public aid, consumer protection, European funds
Public procurement law and public-private partnership
Public procurement, public-private partnership, concessions for construction works and services
Contact
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