The European Commission (EC) has just published a European Wind Power package including a Wind Power Action Plan, which aims at helping the European...

Such transition was required by the European Commission, which considers feed-in tariffs as State aids and requests a more stringent review of such aids.

International law firm BCLP has advised a banking pool led by Crédit Agricole du Languedoc on establishing a €38 million Revolving Credit Facility for Elements, a renewable energy producer based in Montpellier. The facility, which can be extended to €50 million, will support the company's ambitious growth plans to reach 1 GW of installed capacity through photovoltaic, hydropower, and wind projects across France and Italy.

Latin America has seen an increase in investments within the energy sector specifically in renewable energy, with this increase expected to continue over the next few years.

In 2009, France committed to an overall objective of 23 percent of renewable electricity production by 2020 in the context of the EU Climate Change Package.

The market of renewable energies has shown fast growth. With global costs driving down due to the increased prevalence of competitive tendering...

The French government announced last week that it will launch in May 2011 a tender for 10 billion Euros of offshore wind farms with a total capacity of 3000 megawatts (MW), stretching along the French coast.

On September 2, 2016, France announced that it would be the first country to issue national "green bonds" starting in 2017.

In what is viewed as a major step toward the country becoming carbon neutral by 2050, the French Parliament has adopted the "Energy-Climate" law, which sets the framework, ambitions, and targets of French climate policy for the next 30 years.

Originally viewed as one of the most promising countries in Europe for shale gas development, France recently affirmed its decision to ban hydraulic fracturing.

France has published an ordinance setting out the legal regime for hydrogen, aimed at fostering renewable and low-carbon hydrogen.

With a factor 10 growth between 2005 and 2009, wind-powered energy is a booming sector in France. In 2009 alone, building permits for wind power projects representing an overall capacity of 4,000 megawatts ("MW") have been granted by the French authorities.

Under the new decree No.2018-1054 dated November 29, 2018, administrative legal actions relating to wind power plants shall be filed directly before the French Administrative Courts of Appeal.

Effective January 1, 2022, and with the addition of sectors in which foreign investments are subject to prior authorization by the Minister of the Economy, France has taken another step in its ongoing expansion of foreign investment control.

In this episode of French Insider, Reid Whitten, Managing Partner of Sheppard Mullin's London office, joins host Sarah Ben-Moussa to discuss the U.S.-China trade war...

The strong incentives developed by France for solar power projects over the last years have paid off beyond expectation.

August Debouzy a conseillé Acofi Gestion dans le cadre du refinancement (bancaire et obligataire) d'un portefeuille de parcs éoliens et solaires de 80 MW développés en France.

In a judgement dated April 19, 2022, the Tribunal of Paris (the "Tribunal") dismissed a misleading commercial practice claim brought by a consumer protection non-government organization...

With tenfold growth between 2005 and 2009, wind-powered energy is and should continue to be a booming sector in France in the coming decades.

Le nouveau dispositif de "grenellisation" des toitures et stationnements issu des lois Climat et Résilience et Accélération de la Production d'Energies Renouvelables (APER) s'applique depuis...