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• Corporate/M&A
• Renewables
• Hydrogen technologies
• Project finance
• Trade and distribution, PPAs
• Sector coupling and decarbonization
• Regulatory (grid/storage/trade)
• Energy antitrust and merger control 
• Power stations/pipeline projects
• Restructuring
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Insights

Online event: Energy storage technology

June 29, 2021

Germany: We are very pleased that you show interest in our online event: “Energy storage technology”, which took place on June 29, 2021. Our lawyers and guest experts talked about energy storage opportunities, regulatory and other barriers as well as the great potential for innovation.

Parliament passes first law amending the German Federal Climate Protection Act

June 18, 2021 (updated on July 7)

Germany: On June 24, 2021 and in its last session of the current legislative period, the German Parliament passed the first law amending the Federal Climate Protection Act from 2019. The approval of the Federal Council was given one day later. The new law is by and large based on a draft of the Federal Government from May 11, 2021 (19/30230), to which the adopted version of the Environment Committee (19/30949) made only insignificant changes. The new law serves to implement the requirements of the Federal Constitutional Court and takes into account the new – negotiated but not yet agreed – European climate targets.

An opportunity for biogenic hydrogen?

June 2, 2021

On May 20, 2021, the German Parliament passed the draft law for the Further Development of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Quota. It provides for an increase of the greenhouse gas reduction quota in the transport sector to 25% by 2030. In addition – and contrary to prior efforts of the Federal Government – biogenic hydrogen can now be counted towards the greenhouse gas reduction quota, if it was obtained directly from biomass or with electricity from waste-to-energy plants (so-called "orange" hydrogen). In its statement accompanying the draft law, the Parliament gave additional important positive signals for the biogenic hydrogen economy in Germany.

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Recent Press Releases

Dentons advises Solandeo on investment by energy supplier EWE

June 7, 2021

Global law firm Dentons has advised technology company Solandeo on its latest financing round, in which Oldenburg-based energy provider EWE AG has invested in the company as a minority shareholder. The investment by EWE will help Solandeo establish itself as a leading provider of digital infrastructure services for the data and energy transition in the coming years. The parties have agreed not to disclose the transaction volume.

Dentons advises ICG portfolio company TNG on €73 million financing for fiber network roll-out

March 4, 2021

Global law firm Dentons has advised fiber network operator TNG, a portfolio company of Intermediate Capital Group (ICG), on the €73 million financing of its fiber network roll-out in rural areas in northern and western Germany. A European banking syndicate, made up of Kommunalkredit, NIBC, and UBS Asset Management Real Estate & Private Markets (through its Infrastructure Debt Platform), provided the financing.

Dentons advises Commerz Real on acquisition of stake in EnBWs portfolio comprising 14 wind farms

February 23, 2021

Germany: Global law firm Dentons has advised impact fund klimaVest set up by Commerz Real AG on the acquisition of a 49.9 percent stake in a wind farm portfolio of EnBW. The portfolio comprises 14 wind farms with 47 turbines in Germany and provides an installed capacity of 133 megawatts. The wind farms generate 300 gigawatt hours of electricity per year, which is enough to cover the needs of more than 100,000 three-person households in Germany.

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