Energy communities
At SAMSØ, we see the development of energy communities as a key tool for promoting sustainability and energy self-sufficiency within our communities. Through a comprehensive approach, we provide legal advice, public policy support, and technical system design to ensure that each energy community is viable, efficient, and tailored to the needs of its local context. We support communities at every stage of the process, fostering collaboration and empowering citizens.A la vez, acompañamos a las comunidades energéticas a conseguir sus objetivos promoviendo la colaboración, el empoderamiento ciudadano e impulsando cambios normativos que permitan un desarrollo óptimo de estas estructuras.
Legal Services
We provide comprehensive legal advice for the establishment and regulation of energy communities, from selecting the most appropriate legal structure to drafting statutes, agreements, and administrative documentation. We work alongside municipalities, businesses, and citizens to ensure legal compliance, long-term sustainability, and open, voluntary participation.
Public Policy and advocacy
We support the operation and governance of energy communities through feasibility studies, financing models, and assistance with grants and public funding applications. We also collaborate with Community Transition Offices and develop tools to optimise the management of local energy resources and improve community energy planning.
Technical Office
We design the most suitable energy systems for each community, carrying out detailed energy audits as well as technical and financial feasibility studies for photovoltaic installations. Our goal is to improve energy efficiency and maximise the use of available resources.
Neutrality
We guarantee complete neutrality because we are not the service provider or the installation company. As an independent advisor, we provide impartial guidance throughout the entire process, ensuring that your energy community always receives objective recommendations that are in its best interests.
Self-cønsumption
At SAMSØ, we believe in the potential of self-consumption as a key driver of energy self-sufficiency and sustainability across the industrial, logistics, commercial, and residential sectors. We provide comprehensive support for the legalisation of collective self-consumption projects, developing tailored business models and feasibility studies while ensuring that every project is technically robust and economically viable. Drawing on our expertise in legal services, public policy, and technical design, we guide clients through every stage of implementing collective self-consumption systems, helping to accelerate the adoption of renewable energy within communities.
Legal services
We provide comprehensive advice on the legalisation, management, and operation of self-consumption installations, both individual and collective. Our services include handling administrative procedures, permits, contracts, funding applications, and legal support, as well as reviewing administrative decisions and assessing appeals to ensure the legal and technical viability of each project.
Public policy and advocacy
We design business models for industrial, commercial, and residential self-consumption projects, defining compensation mechanisms and identifying opportunities to generate positive impacts for the territories where renewable energy projects are developed.
Technical office
We design and legalise technical projects for collective self-consumption, assessing their feasibility, energy-sharing arrangements, and photovoltaic potential. We also manage licensing procedures, tax incentives, safety requirements, and the commissioning of installations.
Goal zerø and support towards sustainability
At SAMSØ, we work towards achieving a Net Zero objective by reducing environmental impact and promoting sustainable practices. We support public authorities and businesses in integrating sustainability into their strategies, helping to build a greener and more resilient future.
Legal services
We provide legal advice on environmental impact assessments and the development of robust management systems, adapting regulatory frameworks to support sustainable progress. We also assist municipalities in drafting climate change and ecological transition by-laws.
Public policy and advocacy
We advise local authorities on the development of climate policies and administrative actions, designing integrated Energy and Climate Plans that address biodiversity, energy, transport, waste, and water management. We also develop and adapt mobility and waste management strategies focused on reducing, reusing, and recycling resources.
Technical office
We advise organisations across all sectors on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, taking a comprehensive approach that considers all emission scopes and their associated environmental impacts.
Renewables and a pact with the territøry
At SAMSØ, we believe that the energy transition must be shaped with and for local communities. That is why we provide services focused on developing regulatory frameworks and implementation strategies that ensure renewable energy projects deliver tangible benefits to the territories in which they are developed.
Legal services
We provide legal advice on energy sales, the negotiation of Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs), and the permitting processes for energy, environmental, and urban planning approvals. We also advise on competitive tenders under renewable energy support schemes.
Public policy and public affairs
We support the development of energy transition projects by promoting environmental improvements, local job creation, and the resolution of grid access and connection issues. We also assist in the planning, development, and financing of renewable energy plants.
We continuously review and rethink regulatory frameworks to ensure they enable an energy transition that is participatory, democratic, and locally driven.
Møbility
In the context of the energy transition, where mobility accounts for around 42% of our country's energy consumption, it is essential to develop new strategies that rethink today's highly motorised transport model.
We design and assess electric vehicle charging deployment strategies, as well as shared electric mobility models. We also develop procurement frameworks that enable municipalities to combine their own vehicle fleets with shared electric mobility services.
Legal services
We provide legal support for the preparation of documentation required for the installation and operation of electric vehicle charging infrastructure, draft regulatory reports, and assist with grant applications and public procurement processes.
Public policy and public affairs
We advise on the optimisation of public mobility policies, identify funding opportunities, and support their implementation. Our services include preparing transport and mobility plans for organisations, developing tailored mobility management solutions, and delivering awareness-raising and behavioural change initiatives.
Technical office
We design projects and oversee the implementation of electric vehicle charging infrastructure, providing full construction supervision as well as health and safety coordination throughout the execution phase.
Energy størage and distributed generation
We define, design, and implement energy solutions based on innovative energy transition models, including biomass, hydrogen, electric vehicles, and energy storage systems. Combining legal, strategic, and technical expertise, we advise on the development of new business models, renewable energy management, self-consumption, and solutions that enhance energy efficiency and sustainability. We also develop and assess strategies for the deployment of electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
Legal services
We provide legal advice on the development of new business models linked to energy transition technologies, including biomass, hydrogen, electric vehicles, community battery storage, and other innovative energy solutions.
Public policy and advocacy
We develop energy storage strategies to support renewable energy generation, self-consumption, and resilience against electricity price volatility, taking into account the evolution of energy markets.
At the same time, we create project models that facilitate the deployment of these strategies in real-world settings, developing enabling regulatory frameworks and building consensus among all stakeholders involved.
Technical office
We design and size distributed energy storage systems and prepare the technical documentation required for the implementation of distributed energy solutions.
Phøtovoltaic Parks
We provide a comprehensive service for the development of photovoltaic parks, supporting projects from their legal definition through to technical implementation. We combine specialist legal expertise with community engagement, managing all the documentation required to ensure the feasibility and successful delivery of each installation.
Legal services
We advise on every legal aspect of photovoltaic projects, including energy, environmental, and urban planning rights, due diligence processes, and regulatory proceedings before authorities such as the National Commission on Markets and Competition (CNMC).
Public policy and advocacy
We help secure the social licence to operate by developing communication, participation, and mediation processes between project developers and local communities.
Technical office
We prepare and manage the technical documentation required for photovoltaic parks, including feasibility studies, authorisation and grid connection applications, and Environmental Action Plans (PAEs) needed to obtain planning permission.
Energy efficience
We help you maximise the opportunities offered by Energy Savings Certificates (ESCs), combining legal advice with technical expertise to identify, certify, and monetise energy savings achieved through energy efficiency measures.
Legal services
We advise on the application, management, and trading of Energy Savings Certificates (ESCs), as well as on securing grants and public funding related to energy efficiency projects.
Technical office
We develop strategies to reduce energy consumption and recover part of the investment through Energy Savings Certificates (ESCs), supporting both the implementation of energy efficiency improvements and their certification.
Training and awareness
We help you maximise the opportunities offered by Energy Savings Certificates (ESCs), combining legal advice with technical support to identify, certify, and monetise energy savings achieved through energy efficiency measures.
INCIDENCE
We assist in the definition of “public affairs” strategies to advance in the energy transition to a more distributed and participatory model.
WHO DO WE WORK WITH
WE ADRESS US TO...
ENERGY CØMMUNITIES
- We define the legal models for establishing the energy community
- Presentation and definition of help lines
- Selection of suppliers
- Definition of the contracts to be formalised as an energy community
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIØNS
- Promotion, validation and integration services of energy communities, self-consumption or other energy solutions in public sector regulations
- Design of strategies, plans and public policies in matters of energy, sustainability and citizen participation
- Support in the drafting of specifications on technologies, processes and renewable solutions
- Definition of public policies in energy matters
- We propose environmental solutions in environmental policies
- Local, regional or autonomous energy strategies
- Tenders, contracting and articulation of new services linked to the environmental and energy transition
PRIVATE SECTOR
- Definition of your environmental strategies and your social and environmental responsibility
- Social and environmental support strategies with other actors
- Social and environmental “permitting” of your projects
- Legal fit to your proposals to deepen the environmental commitment
- Advocacy proposals that go deeper into the environmental and energy transition scenario you are looking for