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Energy and Infrastructure17.04.2023 Newsletter
Green hydrogen: Chilean authorities set uniform environmental impact criteria and publish tender for electrolyser production in Chile
The Chilean Environmental Impact Assessment Service (“Servicio de Evaluación Ambiental”, SEA) published a 34-page document on 29 March 2023 that sets out new criteria for assessing the environmental impact of green hydrogen production projects.
Energy and InfrastructureEnergy Law11.04.2023 Newsletter
The energy pulse: First hastily stitched together and now being touched up? - German government's Easter draft amendment to the energy price brakes
The first two sentences of the draft act amending the energy price brakes published on 5 April 2023 already indicate that this is unlikely to be the last amendment to the Gas and Heat Price Brake Act (Erdgas-Wärme-Preisbremsengesetz, EWPBG) and the Electricity Price Brake Act (Strompreisbremsegesetz, StromPBG). It describes the price brakes as having been "drafted and put into effect in the last quarter of 2022 within a very short time." In light of initial experience gained with the acts’ implementation, "various adjustment requirements, mainly of a technical and editorial nature, have been identified".
Sustainability, Energy and InfrastructureEnergy Law23.12.2022 Newsletter
Chile and the European Union modernize its Association Agreement with great impulse for the climate-transition critical industries of green hydrogen and lithium
German and European investors in the energy and commodities sector with an eye on the exchange between Chile and the EU - two like-minded regions sharing common democratic values and ambitious climate-change targets - can be pleased at the end of this year with the conclusion of negotiations on the modernization of the 2002 Association Agreement between Chile and the EU, which, among others, sets forth express provisions to secure European investors, offtakers and consumers access to green hydrogen, green ammonia, e-fuels and lithium in a sustainable way.