Region: Spain

Iberdrola is facing a US$535 million claim from Singaporean LNG company Pavilion Energy, while the Spanish utility has also filed a €12.6 million arbitration against a Portuguese energy company over two Polish wind farms it acquired last year. 

16 August 2024

A tribunal is set to rule on a Spanish energy company’s under-the-radar claim against a Kenyan state-owned utility over a programme to provide electricity to impoverished areas of the country.

18 July 2024

A Belgian court has frozen US$32 million in revenues owed to Spain’s state-owned air traffic control company at the request of one of the country’s renewable energy award creditors. 

11 July 2024

The Svea Court of Appeal has set aside a €48 million Energy Charter Treaty award in favour of European solar investors against Spain, finding that as an intra-EU award it was incompatible with fundamental principles of Swedish and EU law.

04 July 2024

A French-owned airport operator has filed a €200 million arbitration against Portugal over restrictions relating to the covid-19 pandemic, as an award against the state arising from a postal services concession is set aside.

14 June 2024

ICSID tribunals have handed down decisions in two Energy Charter Treaty cases against Spain arising from changes to its incentives regime for renewable energy – holding the state liable in one case and ordering it to pay damages in the other. 

07 June 2024

An LCIA tribunal has reportedly ordered Spanish electric utility Endesa to pay around US$14 million to Spain’s Naturgy in a dispute over transport costs under a long-term gas supply contract. 

02 June 2024

Spain has become the latest state to make good on its threat to denounce the Energy Charter Treaty ahead of a proposed EU-wide withdrawal from the treaty.

15 May 2024

The Swiss Federal Supreme Court has upheld an Energy Charter Treaty award that ordered Spain to pay €29.6 million to France’s EDF, finding that the prohibition on intra-EU ECT arbitrations established in Komstroy was based on an erroneous reading of the treaty.

03 May 2024

Former Spanish government lawyer Rafael Gil Nievas has left Eversheds Sutherland along with Pilar Colomés Iess to launch a disputes boutique in Madrid. 

29 April 2024