Energy News – 86th Issue-Energy News -Energy news in Southeast Europe in December (by Mira Todorovic Symeonides Partner / Head of Energy Team, Blerta Topore Associate ROKAS Tirana, Gabriela Ivanova Senior Associate ROKAS Sofia, Alina Negrila Associate ROKAS Bucharest, Suzana Pavlovic Associate ROKAS Belgrade) Headlines 1. Editor’s note 2.Albania establishes a state-owned Renewable Energy Operator...Read More

.“ The Greek Green islands”-(Renewable Energy in Greece) An article drafted by Panagiota Maragkozoglou, Associate and Mira Todorovic Symeonides, Partner for Lexology on July 6, 2024. The Greek Green Islands initiative is a pivotal part of the EU’s energy transition, aiming for climate neutrality by 2050 under the European Green Deal. This initiative focuses on...Read More

Energy News – 85th Issue-Electricity market reform in the EU (by Mira Todorovic Symeonides Partner, Andriani Kantilieraki Senior Associate, Angela Moysidou Senior Associate, Panagiota Maragkozoglou Associate ) Headlines 1. Editor’s note 2. Electricity market reform in the EU 3. The Natural gas and hydrogen reform in the EU 4. Recent amendments to the self-consumption legal...Read More

Contribution to De Gaulle Fleurance OBSERVATORY 2024 (by Mira Todorovic Symeonides, Partner & Panagiota Maragkozoglou, Associate) June 20, 2024 For the 5th consecutive year, De Gaulle Fleurance published its Observatory of Energy Transitions. In 2024, the focus will be on self-consumption of electricity both individual and collective. These Observatories are designed to share, De Gaulle...Read More

Energy Newsflash,  84th Issue SouthEast Europe-Romania adopts offshore wind energy law Headlines 1. Editor’s note 2. The enactment of reforms in guarantees of origin international trade regime in Bulgaria 3. Romania adopts offshore wind energy law to get first megawatts in 2032 4. Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism in Serbia 5. 300 MW Hybrid Photovoltaic Auction...Read More

On 15 March 2024, the law no. 5095/2024 (OJ A’ 40/2024) (the “Law”) adopted, by virtue of article 30, the measures proposed by the Ministry of Environment and Energy (YPEN) aiming at the reduction of the energy cost in the agricultural and industrial sector. Agricultural and industrial sector Within the framework of the necessity for...Read More

Energy News – 83rd Issue-Hydrogen and Alternative fuels Funding of hydrogen and alternative fuels infrastructure projects in the EU HydrogenOn 23 November 2023, the European Commission launched the very first (pilot) auctionunder the European Hydrogen Bank for the facilitation of the production of renewablehydrogen throughout Europe via the deployment of innovative technologies (for a certainvolume...Read More

Greek electricity update 2023 (Article by Mira Todorovic Symeonides, Partner, and Panagiota Maragkozoglou, Associate, published in the Energy & Natural Resources Newsletter of the ILO on January 8, 2024) Rokas| Energy & Natural Resources – Greece-Greek electricity update 2023 Introduction Greece’s first National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) was adopted in 2019 by a decision...Read More

Energy News – 82nd Issue-Power Purchase Agreements in Bulgaria Editor’s note MOU on the coupling of DAM of North Macedonia, Greece, Albania and Kosovo by Blerta Topore Power Purchase Agreements in Bulgaria by Apostolos Christakoudis The Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) is a legally binding contract that sets out theconditions under which a power plant sells...Read More

Taxation of energy producers profits Rokas|Energy & Natural Resources – Greece ((Article by Andriani Kantilieraki, Senior Associate, published in the Energy & Natural Resources Newsletter of the ILO on December 18, 2023) On 20 September 2023, the Hellenic Council of State (ie, Greece’s Supreme Administrative Court), heard the cases brought before it by renewable energy...Read More