Description

Designed for you, if you are...

• Involved in environmental policies/issues
• A professional in a contracts/legal department
• A professional in an operations department
• Project personnel

How we build your confidence

• Open dialogue
• Problem solving
• Case studies
• Exercises

The benefits from attending

• Gain an understanding of the key challenges and impacts of evolving renewable energy laws that are impacting and influencing both developed and developing countries on the quest for net zero
• Be familiar with the key issues and problems regarding the establishment of infrastructure and what this means for the renewable energy supply chain
• Consider the implications of some of the operational issues and legal underpinning of mechanisms such as ‘constraint payments’ and ‘carve out’ options within contracts
• Understand how some governments incentivise the growth of renewable energy
• Have awareness of competition law and its ramifications for the renewable energy industry
• Gain an insight into what ‘emission trading’ is and what this means for renewable energy

Topics

• The question of energy security
• Removing the dependence on hydrocarbons – a vital strategy for the future
• Diversification of the power supply – a potential competitive advantage at a national level?
• The need for technological integration
• The impact of developing markets on RE law
• The impact of developed markets on RE law
• The impact of domestic market changes on RE law
• Case study: literature review/overview of some key international issues in RE law

• The infrastructure challenge – the scope for conflict between different technologies and limited land
• Managing the renewable energy supply chain
• Storage implications - where infrastructure and the supply chain meet
• The growing importance of the procurement function within renewable energy supply chains
• Location of generation facilities and proximity to markets
• Case study: Assessing legal issues relative to infrastructure establishment

• Government subsidies and disputes
• ‘Constraint payments’ – a loaded gun?
• The question of ‘carve outs’
• ROWs, licenses, and other permissions
• Performance and delay issues
• Price escalation clauses and consequential loss
• Case study

• The disconnect between public and private financing of RE projects
• Feed in tariffs (FIT) and public benefit funds
• FIT vs. auctioning
• Legal securities for beneficiary parties (minimum FIT over guaranteed time periods)
• ‘Customisation’ of FIT for differing technologies/energy sources
• Designing a FIT – not a straight-forward process
• Tax incentives

• State aid and protectionism
• Integration of new market entrants
• Efficient competition within the market between incumbents
• The potential danger posed by vertical integration
• Managing congestion
• Capacity renumeration
• Balancing the market
• The issue of energy poverty
• Case study

• What is emission trading?
• The mechanics of emission trading
• Carbon taxes
• The ‘cap and trade’ approach
• The ‘mass based’ cap approach
• The ‘rate based’ cap approach