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Unicase proved its effectiveness in reviewing, amending, and developing national legislation and regulations for heat supply, including taxation and heat tariffs. The heat power sector includes public district heating systems, autonomous heat supply systems (centralised and individual), as well as utilisation systems for heat surplus formed during industrial processes.
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Drafting Renewable Technology-Inclusive Heat Supply Legislation
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The Team analysed the Law “On Electric Power Supply”, Law “On Energy Saving and Energy Efficiency”, Law “On Natural Monopolies and Regulated Markets”, Budget Code of Kazakhstan, and a number of other laws. We introduced the best international practices, including policy stability, tax incentives, effective tariff methodologies, international heat supply system models, and new models for the domestic market, drawing out a clear picture of existing legal gaps and barriers for the sector. We also assessed different scenarios of the sector development.
We worked on the Law draft on Heat Supply including the amendments to the existing laws and acts regulating the sector, as well as technical standards, tariff methodology, and heating development planning. The Experts established regulatory framework and incentive scheme for renewable sources utilisation and energy efficiency standards improvement in the sector.
The heating sector requires huge reforms, and Unicase is on a mission to contribute to the most effective and reasonable reformations and technology update; otherwise, the country's northern regions will suffer from cold.
An innovative part of the Project is to prepare and adopt of legislation to set the heat supply sector on the way to recovery, economic viability, technical efficiency, and sustainability. A hindrance here is that the Kazakhstan Republic, at the legislative level, has little to no regulatory basis which would have otherwise established a valid legal framework for regulating thermal energy and the entire set of relations in the field. The absence of a controlling agency responsible for the conditions, technical policies, and developments of heat supply systems adds to the already complex nature of the Project.
Impact & Outcome
As the Project outcome, strong regulatory body and sound legal framework for the industry will help the development of the systems, attract more investment, and bring out the idea of the primacy of heat power among other technologies in sustainable and socially oriented development. All in all, our work will result in the more extensive use of renewable energy sources and in the enhancement of clean technologies.
Cases
Currently, the Kazakhstan Energy Ministry, a number of other government agencies, the Unicase Law Firm, and Samruk-Energy JSC are implementing a whole range of measures aimed at improving the conditions for investment projects in hydroelectric power plants construction.
We helped the European largest wind power plant manufacturer, a Danish company Vestas, on entering the Kazakhstan market and starting a large-scale investment programme.
Unicase proved its effectiveness in reviewing, amending, and developing national legislation and regulations for heat supply, including taxation and heat tariffs.
Sustainable energy supply affects the local energy market and regulation, wind and solar power generation, power transmission and distribution grids, energy storage and sustainable energy use.
We completed a comprehensive review of existing national legislation and regulations which govern geothermal energy utilisation in Kazakhstan.
Being current on market developments, we advised a Chinese Investment Fund and a Leading Chinese Law Firm on a wide range of subsoil use operations regulatory matters, state approvals, land, and environmental legal issues, to support the Fund in its investments into a large hydrocarbon mine in Kazakhstan.
We rendered full legal support to Zhetysu Wolfram LLP, carrying out mining operations on the Boguty deposit and producing the highest quality tungsten concentrate.
We ran a due diligence on the Client company and issued a legal opinion on the financing to be provided by the Kazakhstan Development Bank for a 50 MW wind power plant.
Our Experts supported the second largest renewable energy corporation in the world during acquisition and project development of a 206 MW wind farm project.
The Unicase Team made a comprehensive analysis of electricity tariff formation and balancing electricity services for regulating the capacity of large and small hydroelectric power plants in Kazakhstan.
We advised a global leader in electricity supply machinery and hardware on the first-ever auction in Kazakhstan for the construction of regulated energy generation facilities.
The Team provided legal services to the country's largest gas pipeline owner, which is the only route for gas exports from Kazakhstan to China.
We provided the Client with legal advisory services within a pilot project on building and operating a 100-megawatt solar power plant, based on a private bilateral sleeved PPA mechanism.
We assisted the international corporation in reviewing, amending, and developing the existing national legislation and regulations of the RES, including taxation and auctions.
Unicase provided consultancy services to a Chinese the oil and gas company as part of a consortium of transborder companies for the construction of a comprehensive gas production project with an estimated value of 500 million USD
Unicase team provides comprehensive legal support for the investment project of Almaty Power Plants JSC, a subsidiary of Samruk-Energy JSC which holds 100% of the company's stocks, on modernise Almaty TPP-2 with a focus on minimising the environmental impact.