Alex McLean

May 9, 2024 | mondaq.com | Niamh McGovern |Aaron Boyle |Danielle Conaghan |Alex McLean

Terms and Conditions and the Timetable for RESS 4 are now available, with the qualification process opening on 20 May 2024. The significant change in RESS 4 is the recognition that further mechanisms are needed to manage project delivery risk.

Mar 21, 2024 | mondaq.com | Aaron Boyle |Alex McLean |Niamh McGovern |James Downey

Keep up to date with energy regulatory developments in Ireland in our March energy horizon scanner. Current developments include consultation on the RESS 4 auction, the closing date of which is extended to 28 March 2024. In offshore renewable energy development, two ongoing consultations look at treatment of grid development costs (for merchant Phase 1 projects and Phase 2 projects). We are also following development of the EU's Nature Restoration Law as the Parliament agrees its approach.

Mar 21, 2024 | mondaq.com | Alex McLean |James Downey |Katrina Donnelly

The Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Act 2023 provided for certain entities to make returns to the CRU not later than December 2023. The CRU has now made Regulations setting out requirements in relation to these returns: S.I. No. 86/2024 – Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Act 2023 (Returns) Regulations 2024.

Sep 14, 2023 | lexology.com | Alex McLean |Niamh McGovern |Aaron Boyle |James Downey |Gillian Carragher |Katrina Donnelly

In Ireland, Government policy supports economic growth and direct inward investment. This requires adequate electricity supply. Typically, this means that electricity producers and consumers can obtain a connection to the electricity grid. It is also possible for cables to be laid directly between producers and consumers and this is not unusual in many jurisdictions.

May 19, 2023 | lexology.com | Alex McLean |Danielle Conaghan |Katrina Donnelly

Recent years have seen private individuals and NGOs increasingly using the courts to enforce rights in the climate sphere. This seems to be a trend that is only going on one direction and represent a risk of which Governments and corporates alike are going to need to be increasingly aware.