Energy law has emerged as a necessity due to the extraction, production, trade, consumption, and storage of energy resources, which has accelerated logarithmically in tandem with population growth. It is a legal field that regulates and supervises activities related to the energy sector. Energy law encompasses the production, distribution, consumption, trade, and regulation of energy. Its objectives include ensuring the efficient and sustainable use of energy resources, securing energy security, reducing environmental impacts, and regulating activities in the energy sector.

The energy market encompasses the production, buying and selling, and trading of various energy sources, including electricity, natural gas, oil, and other renewable energy sources. Energy markets operate under various regulations and oversight to function competitively and efficiently, ensuring the supply and distribution of energy resources. These regulations aim to ensure fair distribution of energy resources, determination of prices, transparency in trade, and energy supply security.

In Turkey, the Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK) is responsible for establishing energy markets and overseeing market activities. EPDK is an independent regulatory authority with administrative and financial autonomy in the electricity market, established in accordance with Article 4 of the Electricity Market Law No. 4628, accepted on February 20, 2001, and later renamed as the Energy Market Regulatory Authority following the regulation in Law No. 4646 dated April 18, 2001. EPDK, as an independent administrative authority (BİO) within our administrative law sources, is an autonomous regulatory institution. Independent administrative authorities, known as BİOs, can be considered as a separate category of entities within decentralized administrative bodies. BİOs play a role in providing a new form of public intervention and are endowed with broad powers. These powers include regulatory authority, monitoring and supervision authority, advisory authority, enforcement authority, and dispute resolution authority.

Within our scope of energy law practice, we offer legal consulting services related to energy law legislation, legal support in the preparation, negotiation, and regulation of energy companies’ main contracts, share transfers, contract review, negotiation, and regulation, legal infrastructure establishment and establishment of structures such as joint ventures, consortiums, and Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs), preparation of EPC contracts and negotiation of their terms, all types of license applications and amendments, and the execution of all procedures related to EPDK, as well as services for obtaining permits and licenses required for the production, sale, transmission, and distribution of energy resources.