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Anaerobic Digestion Task Group The UK Government has finally increased its efforts to achieve a major increase in the use of anaerobic digestion. The Task Group submitted its Implementation Plan in July highlighting as priority areas for action economics and infrastructure, regulation, technology and demonstration and communication.
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Advice on Renewable Energy Merger We advised Garrad Hassan (GH) on a merger with Germanischer-Lloyd.
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Infrastructure/Energy Team of the Year We were named Infrastructure/Energy Team of the Year in The Lawyer Awards 2009. We're really pleased with this achievement, especially as this is the first year the award has been given. This recognises the hard work put in across the firm, as people in every area have helped over recent years.
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Carbon Reduction Commitment Consultation Early in October the Government released its long awaited response on the now re-titled 'Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme'(CRC EE). The Response has made some significant changes to the scheme, providing clarity on some issues and further confusion on others.
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Advice to NDA on Sellafield Land Sale We advised the NDA on the completion of the sale of land adjacent to the nuclear site at Sellafield in Cumbria.
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Investing in Green Energy Electricity suppliers are now obliged to show that a certain proportion of the electricity they supply comes from renewable sources.
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Environmental Legislation: Energy Bill The Energy Bill introduced into the House of Commons on 19 November 2009, if enacted, will see a number of important changes, notably with the introduction of the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Incentive, mandatory social price support, changes to Ofgem's overall general duties and new powers to tackle market exploitation and to strengthen financial penalties and controls on some types of cross subsidy between gas and electricity customers.
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Near-Zero-Energy Buildings Agreement EU Member States government and Members of the European Parliament reached political agreement on 17 November on revisions to the 2002 Energy Performance of Buildings Directive that will have the result of forcing all new buildings constructed after 2020 to consume "near-zero-energy".
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Electricity and Gas (Carbon Emissions Reduction) Amendment Order 2009 Gas and electricity providers with over 50,000 customers are required by this Order to promote law carbon and energy efficiency measures. This is part of the means to deliver Carbon Emissions reduction Targets or CERTs.
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NDA PBO Competition: Dounreay Site Restoration Limited On the 21 September the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority announced the launch of the competition to secure a new Parent Body Organisation to take ownership of the Dounreay Site Restoration Limited Site Licence Company.
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NDA and EDF Land Sales Information about NDA's asset disposal programme and the sales process undertaken by EDF Energy for two of its sites.
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Carbon Capture and Storage Rapid progress has been achieved in addressing many of the legal obstacles to deployment of Carbon Capture and Storage, but there are still real practical difficulties in the way of this key technology.
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Biomass and Sustainability Standards The introduction of banding in the Renewables Obligation from April 2009 has created huge interest in the biomass power sector.
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Feed-In Tariffs Finally On Their Way Using powers in the 2008 Energy Act, the Government is about to introduce a new incentive scheme in April 2010 to encourage the greater deployment of small-scale renewable electricity.
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Burges Salmon Receives Top Billing in New Chambers Guide In the new Chambers guide to legal services, our Environment law team is ranked No 1 for London and UK wide and the South West, our Projects Energy – Renewables and alternative energy team is at Band 4, and our Planning law team is ranked as Band 1 for the South West.
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Infrastructure Planning Commission and National Policy Statements On 10 November 2009 Ed Miliband released the first six National Policy Statements on Energy, which are designed to guide the decision making process of the Infrastructure Planning Commission established under the Planning Act 2008.
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Litigation for Power Companies in the US In 2004 eight US States, the City of New York and three land trusts brought a civil case against five large US power companies in the District Court in Manhattan alleging that they were creating a public nuisance by their emissions. The case was dismissed in 2005 but was reinstated in September 2009.
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