On the afternoon of June 20th, the “Photovoltaic Project Legal Risk Prevention and Dispute Resolution Summit Forum” jointly sponsored by the Hangzhou Municipal Commission and the Hangzhou Renewable Energy Association was held at the Baosheng Century Center in Hangzhou.
Lawyer Hao Li of Beijing Zhonglun (Hangzhou) Law Firm presided over the meeting. Dr. Zhao Liang, Deputy Secretary General of Hangzhou Arbitration Commission, Dr. Zhao Yonghong, Secretary General of Hangzhou Renewable Energy Association, Dr. Lu Chuan, President of Zhejiang Zhengtai New Energy Development Co., Ltd., Lai Zhigao, Legal Leader of Zhengtai Group Co., Ltd., and Ren Wenjun, Deputy Director of Legal Department of Zhejiang Energy Group Leaders and guests of Beijing Zhonglun (Hangzhou) Law Firm, Mr. Zhang Yujie and Chen Yueqi, attended the meeting. Also attending the meeting were the Hangzhou Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Bureau Xiaoshan Branch, Hangzhou Arbitration Commission Xiaoshan Branch, National Power Investment Zhejiang Company, Geely Group, Zhejiang Energy Group, Jiaotou Group, Dongfang Risheng and other government, law firms and enterprises. Hundreds of people involved in legal work.
In a welcome speech, Lu Chuan believes that after more than 20 years of development, the photovoltaic industry has reduced its power generation cost to 1/20 of its original value. In the future, it will remain an industry with unlimited innovation and unlimited hope. It will still be an industry that has undergone development and leap. . With the advent of the era of comprehensive parity in 2019, the new installed capacity will be alleviated. Enterprises in the industry will rely more on mergers and acquisitions to increase installed capacity. In order to survive and develop, PV companies will inevitably participate in investment with a lower-yielding rate. This will greatly reduce its ability to take legal risks. How to strengthen corporate legal risk management, improve legal risk identification, monitoring and prevention mechanisms, avoid disputes and use efficient and correct legal remedies to resolve disputes has become a risk control goal that PV companies and related legal professionals must further strengthen.
At the meeting, Dr. Zhao Yonghong explained in detail the latest policies and trends of the photovoltaic industry, focusing on the analysis and guidance of the national and provincial subsidy bidding policies. Friendly reminders of PV companies should "listen to the country, do their own, and lend the organization": in accordance with the state's subsidies, market-oriented standardization and high-quality green development policies, to provide clear direction, provide security compliance, match application scenarios, and maximize customer benefits. The quality of products and services and the reputation, brand, and integration of the ecological chain, leveraging the platform to integrate development. In the future, enterprises should also focus on the energy-saving renovation of public buildings. Only high-quality green development can win in the future competition.
PV project legal risk prevention and resolution summit forum held in Hangzhou
At the meeting, Chen Yueqi, a partner and arbitrator of Beijing Zhonglun (Hangzhou) Law Firm, gave a speech on the analysis of the dispute resolution mechanism for photovoltaic projects. From the dispute types of contract disputes, enforcement disputes, labor disputes and administrative management disputes, Mr. Chen began to analyze the controversial issues in dispute resolution and the settlement mechanism of contract disputes in a simple and easy way. At the same time, he chose the dispute resolution mechanism for litigation and arbitration. He made a detailed analysis, concisely reproduces the case, summarizes the court's judgment on specific issues, reveals the legal risks in the practice of photovoltaic projects, and provides photovoltaic practitioners with effective protection against legal risks during the implementation of daily PV projects. Practical guidance on operability.
In the typical controversial case and handling speech of the PV project, Mr. Hao Li pointed out that after the policy shock period of 2018, the development of photovoltaics gradually showed a rational trend. At the same time of slowing down the growth rate, the legal risk prevention of the project, investment and financing decisions Rationality has gradually become one of the key issues for PV practitioners. Mr. Hao also shared the “Big Data Research Report on the Typical Judgment Rules of the 2018 PV Projects” compiled by the Zhonglun Law Firm team. The report was made from the geographical distribution of the case, the type of dispute, the court trial level and the referee results. Big data analysis. From the four aspects of the development, construction and operation of photovoltaic projects, the typical cases of pre-project, cooperative investment and procurement construction were selected to reveal the five major trends of PV project disputes. Through the case analysis of relevant PV investment projects, Mr. Hao pointed out the key points of the practice from the judgment of the case, and made the participants recognize the necessary work processes and legal knowledge such as PV development, construction and maintenance, and legal risk prevention for PV projects. Dispute resolution provides guidance and important lessons.
The meeting also focused on the topic of “Russian Project Investment and Financing Legal Risk”, and invited Dr. Zhao Liang, Deputy Secretary General of Hangzhou Arbitration Commission, Any Wenjun, Deputy Director of Legal Department of Zhejiang Energy Group, Chen Xiangyu, Legal Director of Zhejiang Zhengtai New Energy, and Zhonglun Law Firm Mr. Zhang Yujie, the partner and director of the Hangzhou branch, conducted a roundtable discussion. The experts who participated in the discussion expressed their views and opinions on corporate legal risk prevention, focusing on the financing model, scheme and how to effectively prevent and control project financing legal risks, the characteristics of PV arbitration cases, how to deal with various types of investment. After the risk and other issues have been thoroughly exchanged, it is agreed that only by cultivating everyone's legal awareness and legal thinking, and strengthening the prevention of corporate legal risks, can we prevent the legal risks of the company in the work, thus actively maintaining the company's Benefits to protect the long-term development of the industry.
Finally, Dr. Zhao Liang made a summary of the meeting. He believes that through this forum, everyone can fully learn and communicate, see the risks in the photovoltaic industry, but see new opportunities and new possibilities, new changes and new developments. space. The meeting played an important role in improving the level of corporate governance and the legal risk prevention awareness of photovoltaic projects. It also provided important practical guidance for the development, construction and operation of photovoltaic projects and related dispute resolution according to law, and also promoted photovoltaics. The industry's healthy and sustainable development provides legal protection.