We have long and extensive experience in legal watercourse and energy issues in the power industry in both the public and private sectors. The composition of our client portfolio gives us broad industrial experience and insight into the legal issues facing our clients.
Our firm has published commented editions of the Watercourse Act and the Energy Act, and we are co-authors of Vassdrags- og Energirett (Watercourse and Energy Law).
We provide advisory services and legal assistance to power producers, grid owners, power traders and public authorities in connection, for example, with the following areas:
- Regulatory framework for the industry
- Issues related to concessions, such as applications and licenses for hydropower and wind power, concession conditions, concession power, concession fees, and revision of the concession conditions
- Development and upgrading of power plants, water regulation installations, grids and wind power installations, acquisition of rights and appraisement
- Issues related to new energy carriers such as wind, biofuels and gas
- Transmission of power
- Physical and financial power trading
- Organisation of power plants, small power plants, ownership structures, cooperation agreements and other contractual and company law issues
- Transactions in connection with the trading of ownership interests, restructuring and reorganisation, mergers and demergers
- Power plant taxation