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⚖️ Le 12 mars 2025, la Cour fédérale de justice (BGH) a rendu un jugement important (réf. XII ZR 76/24) concernant l'aménagement de la durée des contrats d'utilisation d'installations éoliennes : ⏳ Si les parties associent le début de la durée du contrat à un événement incertain - comme par exemple la mise en service de la dernière éolienne prévue dans un parc éolien - il s'agit d'une condition suspensive au sens de l'article 158, paragraphe 1 du BGB. Le contrat est alors déjà contraignant, mais la durée déterminée du contrat ne commence que lorsque la condition est réalisée. Dans ce cas, la durée jusqu'à ce que la condition se réalise est indéterminée et le contrat d'utilisation peut généralement être résilié par résiliation ordinaire conformément à l'article 542, paragraphe 1 du Code civil allemand (BGB). ❗ Pertinence pratique du jugement : Même si le contrat est à durée indéterminée avant que la cond…

Des jugements récents du tribunal administratif supérieur de Bautzen et du tribunal administratif supérieur de Coblence lʼaffirment clairement : le développement de lʼénergie éolienne et la protection des monuments historiques (dans ce cas, même en tant que patrimoine culturel mondial de lʼUNESCO) peuvent être compatibles. Les principales l̲e̲a̲r̲i̲n̲g̲s̲ de ces décisions : 👉 Protection du patrimoine et protection du climat : les deux aspects doivent être en harmonie. Les tribunaux soulignent que la protection du patrimoine n'a pas automatiquement la priorité sur la protection du climat et le développement des énergies renouvelables. 👉 La visibilité est déterminante : les éoliennes à peine perceptibles à une distance plus importante ne constituent pas une atteinte importante au patrimoine culturel. La visibilité à elle seule ne justifie pas un refus. 👉 Flexibilité en cas de divergences : Les tribunaux consi…

By decision of 11. 02. 2020 the BGH specifies the requirements for a citizen energy company according to § 3 No. 15 EEG, which participates in an invitation to tender, in the sense that the majority of voting rights for district-based members must also be accompanied by a corresponding actual possibility of exerting influence on the company and participating in decisions of the general meeting. However, the requirements for a public energy company are not fulfilled if the social contract does not provide for majority decisions or if the social contract of a limited partnership withdraws fundamental transactions from the decision of the shareholders and assigns them exclusively to a company of the complementary company. ( BGH, Dec. from 11. 02. 2020 - Az. : EnVR 101/18)

In a decision of 11 March 2020, the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court (OLG) commented on whether the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) is obliged to examine the legality of the licensing authority's immission-related decision in the context of the tender to determine the financial support for onshore wind energy plants. The court came to the conclusion that in the case of § 36f para. 2 p. 1 EEG 2017, it depends solely on the actual approval situation, i. e. depends on whether the competent licensing authority has granted a modification permit under immission control law. This applies accordingly to the existence of an approval for modification. For this reason, in the specific case, the contract was to be rejected in the invitation to tender, as a modification permit already existed and it was irrelevant to the BNetzA whether a new BImSch permit should have been issued by the permitting authority ( OLG Düsseldorf, Declaration of 11. 03. 2020 - Ref: 3 Kart …

The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) is reacting to the effects of the corona virus and is adapting the mechanism for the tendering of renewable energies and CHP plants. The dates of the call for tenders and the implementation of the call for tenders will not be adjusted in the process. However, the successful bidders will not already be awarded the contract, but will first receive an assurance, so that the deadlines associated with the award will not yet begin to run. In addition, the BNetzA announces that for bids for #Wind energy on land and biomass that have already been awarded the implementation deadlines would be granted unbureaucratically by informal application.

The OLG Düsseldorf has decided that the BNetzA is obliged to anonymously disclose bid values from the tender for wind energy. One unsuccessful bidder argued that it could not be ruled out that knowledge of the bid amount might provide the complainant with further indications of an inadmissible price agreement pursuant to Section 34 (1) b) EEG 2017. The Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court granted this to the extent that, in connection with the location and type of plant, which can also be seen from the bid, conclusions can regularly be drawn about the profits with which the respective bidder has calculated, which is why the bids would only have to be disclosed anonymously. (OLG Düsseldorf, Resolution of 14. 11. 2018 - Ref. : 3 Kart 6/18)