Orrick Podcasts

In our latest episode, Public Policy Podcast hosts Jon Mandel and Scott Ward spoke with the Delaware Senate Majority Leader Bryan Townsend about the state’s $800 million budget surplus, marijuana legalization, and legislative highlights such as the Healthy Delaware Families Act, which advances family/medical leave policy.

Il Governo e il Parlamento mai come ora sono al lavoro per contribuire allo sviluppo delle rinnovabili in Italia. Ospite della puntata il Senatore Gianni Girotto, Presidente della 10a Commissione Industria, Commercio, Turismo con il quale abbiamo discusso delle misure necessarie ad un’ulteriore diffusione delle rinnovabili, anche in materia di stoccaggi, e delle prospettive di sviluppo delle comunità energetiche.

The Energy Decree, as converted into law, provides that the GSE, a state owned company managing the incentive schemes for renewables in Italy, can buy the energy produced by renewable plants through the execution of long term PPAs and then sell it, at discounted prices, giving priority to a short list of selected entities which include energy-intensive companies. The aim of the provision is to support those companies which are most suffering from the energy crisis giving them access to reasonable prices not influenced by the ongoing speculations.

Guests of this episode are Carlo Montella, partner and global Deputy Business Unit Leader of the Energy and Infrastructure practice at Orrick and Stefano Cavriani, founder and director at Ego Energy. Our guests will discuss which market segments will be more affected by this new piece of legislation and what criticalities they see in its implementation.

In the last decade, Italy has seen an exponential growth of W&I insurance policies in the M&A energy market. There are several issues being debated around the use of this product, one of them being whether willful misconduct and gross negligence can be insured pursuant to Italian law. We discuss this with Andrea Gentili, a partner on our Italian energy team.

This podcast, available in Italian only, discusses why energy prices are linked to the gas’s price even when electricity is not produced using gas, as well as options for decoupling the energy and the gas market and how this measure will impact the profitability of investments in the renewable  energy industry.

Which are the Italian regions investors prefer to invest in and why? How much does it cost to invest in solar in Italy? Inhouse vs Outsourcing project development, which are the challenges and opportunities? These are some of the questions that we will ask our speakers including Andrea Gentili, partner of the Italian Energy team and Francesc Filiberto, Head of Solar Development at Glennmont.

Con il decreto legge 13 del 25 febbraio scorso, il governo è tornato sul quadro normativo delineato a fine gennaio con l’art. 16 del c.d. Sostegni Ter, apportando alcune novità al “meccanismo a due vie”, già oggetto di analisi nelle scorse puntate. In questo episodio Celeste Mellone, of counsel del team, ospita l’avv. Andrea Sticchi Damiani, che torna a trovarci per discutere di questo ed altri temi di rilievo in materia di rinnovabili.

In our latest episode, Public Policy Podcast hosts Michelle MacGregor and Scott Ward spoke with the Minnesota State Senate Majority Leader Jeremy Miller, the youngest Senate President in state history, about sports betting, Minnesota’s $7.7 billion budget surplus and public safety. As it’s an election year for the entire legislature and Governorship, we also discussed the upcoming midterm elections and the redistricting process.

Tra le priorità del momento del nostro esecutivo vi è la definizione di alternative all’approvvigionamento del gas dalla Russia; le energie rinnovabili sono mai come ora fondamentali per raggiungere l’obiettivo dell’indipendenza energetica del nostro paese. Insieme a Carlo Montella, Global Deputy Business Unit Leader della practice energy and infrastructure dello studio Orrick, e Tommaso Barbetti, founding partner di Elemens, discutiamo del ruolo dei PPA nel contesto attuale.  

Il Decreto Sostegni-ter, entrato in vigore il 28 gennaio, prevede una serie di misure dirette a contenere gli effetti del cd “caro bollette”. In questo episodio il nostro partener Carlo Montella, Global Deputy Business Unit Leader del dipartimento energy & infrastructure dello studio, ne parlerà insieme all’avvocato Andrea Sticchi Damiani.