Energy

A ruling that overturns a unanimous line of case law Our Firm, through attorneys Massimo Colicchia and Federico Novelli, has obtained a landmark victory in the hydroelectric sector. By judgment No. 6277/2026, the Second Section of the Consiglio di Stato (Council of State)...

Article 7 of Decree-Law n. 21 of 20 February 2026 (the “Bill Decree”), by inserting Article 10-bis into Legislative Decree n. 190/2024 (the Consolidated Text on Renewable Energy Sources, so called “FER Decree”), has reshaped the rules governing access to grid capacity for...

Through ruling no. 134 of 15 July 2025 , the Italian Constitutional Court ruled on a key issue for the governance of the energy transition: the constitutional illegitimacy of a regional law introducing an absolute ban on the siting of renewable energy plants. This ruling aligns...

Already in the aftermath of the approval of the bill on the moratorium for new renewable energy plants (RES) in Sardinia, we had pointed out its constitutional criticality profiles for violating, among others, the prohibition on moratoria imposed by Article 20 of Legislative...

Our Legislator is accustoming us to strong emotional shocks. The very latest news on expropriations in the renewable energy sector, however – in a context worthy of more thoughtful reflection – offer reassuring elements. We had left off with a note in which we wondered whether,...