On 3 May, the Bundestag Committee on the Environment will hold a public hearing on the ordinance on measures to avoid carbon leakage due to the trading of fuel emissions at national level. BBH partner Prof. Dr. Ines Zenke is among the invited experts.

The Federal Government launched its draft of…

A nationwide survey conducted by BBH Immobilien GmbH & Co. KG confirms the relevance of sustainable concepts for urban neighbourhoods. The experiences of stakeholders in the planning and implementation of urban neighbourhoods constitute a promising basis in this respect. According to the survey,…

The pricing challenge: While consumers would like their energy to be priced fairly and reasonably, suppliers are regularly faced with the task of adequately taking into account the complex cost structures and surcharge mechanisms in their calculation. More than 15,000 rules and regulations relevant…

The general ruling by which the Federal Office for Information Security (Bundesamt für die Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik – BSI) had established the technical availability and given the go-ahead for the mandatory installation of smart metering systems at the beginning of 2020 is “likely to be…

Long-serving executives Dr. Andreas Jankiewicz and Roland Monjau, who have been with the business consulting firm BBH Consulting AG (BBHC) since its early days and were appointed members of the extended management team (“Management Board”) in 2018, will support the BBHC board (“Vorstand”) from 2021…

As a highly versatile source of energy, hydrogen will play a key role for the energy transition and for achieving the climate targets. While many companies are already planning their first hydrogen projects, public players are also focussing on the regulatory framework. At the interface of economic…

A combined tendering model can help achieve Germany’s expansion targets for electrolysers as set out in the National Hydrogen Strategy. This is the result of a short study conducted by the BBH group on behalf of the association Initiative Erdgasspeicher e.V. (Natural Gas Storage Initiative – INES).…

At the turn of the year, the law firm Becker Büttner Held (BBH) added to its management team again by appointing two new partners and four new partners counsel.