Specialised

Price Adjustments/Profitability Clauses

Price agreements, especially long-term purchase agreements, keep coming under pressure. The customer may be dissatisfied with the transparency of the price calculation which should then be reviewed. That is often based on § 315 Civil Code or anti-trust law provisions. Influences, external to the contract – regulatory law provisions or (geo-) political developments and technological advances – may affect the economic balance in the supply relationship or its profitability. Frequently then disputes about contract adjustments on the basis of the profitability clauses arise. We advise our clients in such cases and support them both before state courts and arbitration tribunals. We then work together with economic experts and auditors.

Weitere Schwerpunkte aus der Expertise "Energy"

Electricity Grid

The calculation of prices for the use of infrastructures has, over the years, developed into a core expertise of our infrastructure law team.

Generation: Renewable Energies

We bring comprehensive experience in complicated public law proceedings to the erection, operation and closure of decentralised energy generation facilities.

Gas

We act extensively in regulatory advice on reasonable pricing of gas grids (e.g., REGENT/AMELIE). That also includes questions of control and balancing energy. Currently, however, the security of the gas supply according to the SOS Regulation and the Energy Security Act take priority both for protected and unprotected customers.

Charging Station Infrastructure

We act throughout the process of selecting locations, discussions with owners (license agreements) and draft contracts with the Charge Point Operator (CPO), the E-Mobility Provider (EMP) and the electricity suppliers. We would be glad to draft general conditions of business for your charging infrastructure (LIS).

Biomethane

We advise important market players in the biogas market especially on all questions of contract drafting and price adjustments. That also includes the trading in greenhouse gases reduction quotas (RED II, the Federal Emissions Act (BImschG))

Contracting

Companies in the industry instruct us because of our result-oriented support in outsourcing and contracting models. We identify where the financial advantage for electrical energy produced in the client’s own power stations can apply and advise on questions of the transfer of undertaking. We tailor drafts for the contracting project even including the client’s own power stations and the sale of media (steam, electricity).