Krzysztof Cichocki has been appointed as Communications Officer of the Power Law Committee of the International Bar Association

We are pleased to announce that Krzysztof Cichocki has been appointed as Communications Officer of the Power Law Committee of the International Bar Association.

The mission of the Power Law Committee of the International Bar Association is to provide a forum where energy lawyers with different legal backgrounds from around the world can interact and learn from one another in a setting encouraging collegiality and the friendly exchange of ideas. The committee is part of the Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law.

Although the power sector may be governed by rules specific to each jurisdiction, the acceptance of international ownership of power companies and plants is now very well established in many jurisdictions. Similarly, despite the fact that transactional and finance lawyers have become increasingly involved in the power business, there is still the need for highly specialized expertise relating to regulatory regimes and methodologies: power purchase arrangements, transmission siting, access and pricing, engineering procurement and construction, operation and maintenance, reliability standards and compliance, fuel procurement and hedging arrangements.

Additionally, and very importantly, there is a new global emphasis on sources of renewable energy and demand-side management necessary for mitigating climate change.

All of these are topics which the Power Law Committee embraces as challenges to be inescapably confronted.