14 April 2020
Uncovering challenges, objectives and other factors influencing the energy industry
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Our associate Christopher Thiel deals with these and other factors influencing the energy industry and highlights the sensitive environment in which energy sales operate. To what extent do these influences bring new ...

21 November 2019
Alert - FER1 Decree
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On 9 August 2019 the Official Gazette published the Ministry of Economic Development's Ministerial Decree of 4 July 2019 ¬ (“MD FER1”).This entered into force the following day - 10 August 2019 - and is set to regulate ...

17 July 2019
Cybersecurity & Singapore - Risks for an Increasingly Digitalised Energy Sector
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The energy sector is becoming increasingly digitalised and companies in this sector should consider how digitalisation affects them. This final article in our Cybersecurity & Singapore series highlights the impact of ...

01 August 2019
Will the proposed modernisation of the ECT clip the wings of European investor-state arbitration?
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The proposed modernisation of the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) received an important boost on 15 July 2019. The EU Foreign Affairs Council, together with the Member States who are parties to the Energy Charter Treaty ...

27 November 2019
Bird & Bird and K&L Gates respectively assisted ForVEI II and Origis Group in the cross-border acquisition of 35 photovoltaic plants in Italy and Slovakia
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/global/bird-and-bird-and-k-and-l-gates-assisted-forvei-ii-and-origis-group-in-the-cross-border-acquisition

Bird & Bird acted alongside the buyer, a joint venture vehicle dedicated to investments in photovoltaics between Foresight and VEI Green and identified as "ForVEI II".

24 June 2019
UAE Energy Strategy 2050
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The United Arab Emirates Energy Strategy 2050 has the bold goal of diversifying current energy sources and doubling the country's reliance upon clean energy sources by 2050. The goal is also to reduced the country's ...

22 January 2019
EU wholesale electricity market design – our one-page summary
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On 18 December 2018, the EU institutions held the last in a series of "trilogue" meetings to finalise the text of the last two key elements of the Clean Energy Package – the recast Regulation and Directive that will ...

05 December 2019
Brazilian-German Workshop on Mini- and Micro-Generation of Energy
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Matthias Lang spoke at the Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency (ANEEL) on experiences with reducing renewable energy support payments on 6 November 2019 in Brasilia

27 March 2019
New laws regulating waste in Singapore to be introduced this year
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In January 2019, the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources announced that a Zero Waste Masterplan will be published and implemented in the second-half of 2019, as part of Singapore's plan to make 2019 the "Year ...

16 August 2019
The push for adopting Hydrogen-Fuel Cell Vehicles in Singapore
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As Singapore seeks to move away from its dependence on gas towards renewable energy sources like solar, the transport sector is similarly undergoing the same shift towards alternative fuel sources.