The energy sources used and the ways in which they are used have been changing rapidly, at the latest since the so-called energy revolution. The legal framework for the production, distribution, trade and consumption of electricity, gas and heat has changed just as quickly. The liberalization of the energy market already initiated with the New Energy Industry Act of 1996 has significantly multiplied the number of market participants at all levels of the value chain.
We have been involved in this change from the outset — as a companion to young companies, the “children of liberalization.” Some of them have achieved considerable size and significance. The access of area network operators to the “last mile” distribution network market dominated by regional suppliers was, among other things, the subject of antitrust proceedings, which we initiated with an area network operator and successfully accompanied until the “Mainova” ruling by the Federal Court of Justice was reached. Since the early 1990s, we have also made a name for ourselves with legal concepts for innovative decentralized supply projects for industry and the housing sector.
