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FEATURE SPONSOR


OFFSHORE INTEGRATED GRIDS


would, irrespective of the Brexit model, need to negotiate an appropriate partnership with the EU and adopt and comply with the relevant EU legislation.


THIRD ENERGY PACKAGE


The Third Energy Package is a package of EU legislation that aims to liberalise European gas and electricity markets. Given the UK’s liberalised energy policy it is likely to continue to implement - and be supportive of - many of its aspects. If the UK remains part of the EEA the EU state aid rules would continue to apply to energy infrastructure and support schemes in identical forms, since the EEA Agreement contains a similar prohibition against granting financial assistance in a way that distorts competition and inter-state trade within the EEA. In whatever form Brexit takes the UK’s climate change goals are unlikely to change as they are established at a national level under the Climate Change Act 2008. However, there will still be important issues to settle. For example, at an international level the UK’s emission reduction commitment would need to be disentangled from the EU target under the United National Framework Convention on Climate Change and the recent Paris Agreement.


EU EMISSION TRADING SYSTEMS


An important question is whether the UK will still be able to participate in the EU Emission Trading Systems. If it does not, then transitional and linking arrangements would be required, which is something of particular importance for companies holding a surplus of allowances. Unless it uses the EEA and EFTA Membership Brexit Model once it exits the EU, the UK would be released from its renewable energy targets under the Renewable Energy Directive (2009/208/EC) and from EU state restrictions, potentially giving the government more freedom both in the design and phasing out of renewable energy support schemes. Under the Industrial Emissions Directive 2010 (2010/76/ EU), operators of specified industrial combustion plants are required to hold environmental permits that are granted subject to conditions seeking to control and gradually reduce emissions and discharges into the environment and the generation of waste. These have effects on coal powered plants and many older gas plants which are expected to close by 2023, as they have selected a limited life derogation and can operate without abatement of equipment until the end of 2023.


Martin Collingwood Andrew Jackson Solicitors


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It remains to be seen what model the UK adopts following Brexit; how it will take that forward; the impact that it will have on the concept of a single energy market and the security and stability which that market is intended to bring.


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