Industry Insights

A grid-based energy supply that is as secure, affordable, consumer-friendly, efficient, environmentally-friendly and greenhouse gas-neutral as possible requires competent politicians, knowledgeable legislators, realistic authorities and responsible companies on the producer, distributor and consumer sides. In the event of loopholes and disputes, the courts also have an increasing responsibility.

Aecoute° offers expert advice at the interface between the above-mentioned objectives and the parties involved, with lawyers who have many years of experience advising and assisting their clients.

The core tasks of the property and housing industry are not in the area of energy supply, but the density of energy supply tasks is constantly increasing. Due to rising energy costs, increasing energy efficiency requirements and an extensive catalogue of obligations, projects in the real estate and housing industry can only be designed in a legally compliant and economical manner if energy and climate requirements are considered and implemented from the outset.

Aecoute° advises the property and housing industry on all energy and climate-related issues. We guide the legislative process and advise, design and manage energy issues for new developments, neighbourhood supply systems and existing buildings. We support the practical implementation of the regulations until the costs are passed on to the tenants as end customers in accordance with the law.

As decentralised energy producers, end users and distributors, industrial and commercial companies play an increasingly important role in energy and climate protection. In addition to their core tasks, they should strive for and implement climate-neutral management and thus actively promote climate protection.

Aecoute° lawyers have been advising industrial and commercial companies and industrial and business parks on energy and climate protection for more than twenty years. We support the design and operation of decentralised energy generation and supply projects, energy procurement trough market tenders, contract and PPA drafting, the analysis and implementation of savings opportunities and the utilisation of subsidies and tax benefits.

The energy sector is of paramount importance for transport and traffic. Whether it is airports, rail transport, electric mobility, traditional road transport or even traffic and cycle paths - without sufficient consideration of energy and climate protection, nothing will move in these areas.

We advise on current and future legal issues in all areas of transport and traffic.

Climate and environmental protection requirements, as well as rising energy costs, are increasingly restricting design options in the healthcare and university sectors. Requirements for energy efficiency and future climate neutrality, obligations in the area of metering and metering systems, requirements for security of supply with decentralised energy generation and many other tasks are turning hospitals and clinics as well as many universities into (mostly unwanted) energy suppliers by law. As the revenue side is limited by government and health insurance allocations, the rising costs of energy and climate change pose ever greater challenges.

As an experienced partner to hospitals, clinics and universities, we are happy to provide successful advice at all levels on the energy and climate change challenges facing the healthcare and higher education sectors.

Federal, state and local governments and their organisations are often producers, suppliers and end users of electricity, gas, heat and all other forms of energy. In the area of purchasing, they are bound by public procurement rules. In most cases, all provisions of energy and climate protection law apply to public organisations without restriction.

The lawyers at Aecoute° have been advising federal, state and local authorities on all aspects of the energy and climate change sector since the beginning of liberalisation about 25 years ago.