AstapovLawyers’ alternative energy practice undergone rapidly growing development in 2011
30 December 2011
During the 2011 AstapovLawyers International Law Group accompanied by a variety of projects in renewable energy sector, providing legal services to a number of international companies interested in investing in Ukrainian alternative energy sector. Such include:
• Czech company, specializing in developing and producing solar technology - a project of building a solar power plant in Ukraine; • Finnish Energy Service Company - a project of implementation of energy-saving equipment; • Italian company, specializing in the production of wind power plants - consulting on the issues of creation of wind farms in Ukraine.
During the implementation of these projects AstapovLawyers’ energy law practitioners provided legal services in the following areas:
- consulting on issues related to using alternative energy sources; - consulting on the implementation of energy efficient equipment; - identifying and minimizing of legal risks related to the implementation of energy efficient technologies and construction of renewable energy facilities; - legal support for implementing projects in alternative energy, planning, coordination of contractual mechanisms of using energy efficient equipment; - legal analysis of related tax, customs, corporate, regulatory, currency and other issues.
Since 2009, the date, when Ukraine implemented an effective mechanism of returning investments over the highest in Europe "green tariff", investors’ interest to renewable energy sector has grown rapidly. Given significant experience in legal projects on implementation of energy-saving technologies and a team of highly skilled professionals, AstapovLawyers ready to give a full-service legal advice, aimed for further development and implementation of appropriate mechanisms for investment in alternative energy in Ukraine.