Kinkin & Partners provides comprehensive legal services in the field of production and marketing of electricity, produced from renewable energy sources. We have considerable experience in providing advice related to the implementation of such investment intentions in the achievement of procedures to control devices, up to stage of commissioning of the facilities, connection to the electricity grid, conclusion of contracts for the sale of produced electricity and operation of the respective facilities
In particular, the legal services, provided by the Law Firm are:
- advice related to the specific requirements for the realization of projects for construction of hydropower plants, including obtaining the relevant permits under the Water Act;
- advice on the construction of photovoltaic plants, including technical rules and standards for the construction of similar facilities, means of their lawful placement through approval of detailed plans, identifying construction sites and change of use of agricultural land, the requirements for investment planning;
- legal advice during construction of wind power plants, including specific requirements for distance of such facilities from villages, ways of their connection to power distributions and / or power transmission network, taking to consideration their higher installed capacity;
- legal advice on specific preferential conditions for connection of producers of electricity from renewable energy sources, as well as purchase of the constructed from the accession person connecting facilities;
- consultation in the process of sale of electricity, produced from renewable electricity sources, both at regulated prices in preferential conditions for the compulsory purchase of this type of electricity and freely negotiated prices, and also the possibility of export of electricity and methods for cross-border sales of electricity;
- carrying out various administrative procedures in front of the energy regulator authority in the formation of preferential diversified prices on types of renewable energy sources and in comply with the type of their technology, as well as litigation relating to appeals of the decisions for price settlement in the sector;
- advice on the operation of constructed facilities, in order to to meet the regulatory requirements.
In order to purchase projects in the field of renewable energy sources, we provide full legal analysis, appropriate to the respective stage of implementation of the investment intention, including a risk assessment in terms of ownership, conducted planning procedures and issued permits and licenses for the activity, as well as the approval process of construction and implementation.