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The UK Government has proposed important changes to the support levels available for renewable energy projects under the Renewables Obligation for the 2013 – 2017 period in England and Wales. The proposals ramp up support for new technologies such as wave...

A review of the Equator Principles (EPs) has made recommendations to change a number of aspects of the EPs framework and these could have a significant impact on finance transactions. In particular, use of the EPs could extend beyond pure project finance to corporate...

The UK's renewable energy sector is facing an overhaul of the incentive schemes the Government offers to promote low-carbon power generation. The changes, which follow the energy market reforms the Government unveiled in December 2010, include a review of feed-in...

Policymakers in the United States are spending a great deal of their time during this election year discussing energy production strategy. And although energy has always been a politically emotive issue, it has become an even more significant debating point among...

Die Novelle des Kraft-Wärme-Kopplungsgesetzes (KWK-G) 2012 Der Bundesrat hat in seiner Sitzung am vergangenen Freitag das vom Bundestag am 24.05.2012 verabschiedete Gesetz zur Änderung des Kraft-Wärme-Kopplungs-Gesetzes gebilligt und von einem...

The UK Government has published an early draft of its Energy Bill and in doing so has sent a message to industry that it intends to introduce its energy market reforms, first announced nearly eighteen months ago, on time. However, whilst the Government is working...

Following July's Electricity Market Reform White Paper, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has now published a technical update paper giving some additional detail on the reforms, in particular on the Capacity Mechanism, the institutional...

Japan's new feed-in-tariff (Japanese FiT) became effective on 1 July 2012.  We have reviewed the applicable legislation (the Act on Special Measures concerning Procurement of Renewable Energy by Utility Companies, the relevant cabinet ordinances and...

Japan's new feed-in-tariff (Japanese FiT) became effective on 1 July 2012.  We have reviewed the applicable legislation (the Act on Special Measures concerning Procurement of Renewable Energy by Utility Companies, the relevant cabinet ordinances and...

As we move closer to 2020, it has never looked more difficult for some countries to meet their national greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets. In many jurisdictions, nuclear energy has been considered the answer to carbon reduction whilst fulfilling everincreasing domestic...