Case C-148/23, Gestore dei Servizi Energetici: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 27 June 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato – Italy) – Gestore dei Servizi Energetici SpA – GSE v Erg Eolica Ginestra Srl and Others (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Environment – Directive 2009/28/EC – Article 1 – Article 3(3)(a) – Principles of legal certainty and the protection of legitimate expectations – Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Article 16 – Promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources – Alteration of the applicable support scheme – Grant of the aid concerned subject to the conclusion of contracts)
Date: 2024-06-27
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: electrical energy, energy production, financial aid, power plant, principle of legal certainty, renewable energy








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C/2024/4832


12.8.2024






Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 27 June 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato – Italy) – Gestore dei Servizi Energetici SpA – GSE v Erg Eolica Ginestra Srl and Others


(Case C-148/23,
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Gestore dei Servizi Energetici)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Environment - Directive 2009/28/EC - Article 1 - Article 3(3)(a) - Principles of legal certainty and the protection of legitimate expectations - Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union - Article 16 - Promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources - Alteration of the applicable support scheme - Grant of the aid concerned subject to the conclusion of contracts)
(C/2024/4832)
Language of the case: Italian

Referring court

Consiglio di Stato

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: Gestore dei Servizi Energetici SpA – GSE

Defendants: Erg Eolica Ginestra Srl, Erg Eolica Campania SpA, Erg Eolica Fossa del Lupo Srl, Erg Eolica Amaroni Srl, Erg Eolica Adriatica Srl, Erg Eolica San Vincenzo Srl, Erg Eolica San Circeo Srl, Erg Eolica Faeto Srl, Green Vicari Srl, Erg Wind Energy Srl, Erg Wind Sicilia 3 Srl, Erg Wind Sicilia 6 Srl, Erg Wind 4 Srl, Erg Wind 6 Srl, Erg Wind Sicilia 5 Srl, Erg Wind 2000 Srl, Erg Wind Sicilia 2 Srl, Erg Wind Sardegna Srl, Erg Wind Sicilia 4 Srl, Enel Hydro Appennino Centrale Srl, formerly Erg Hydro Srl, Erg Power Generation SpA, Ministero dello Sviluppo economico

Operative part of the judgment

Articles 1 and 3 of Directive 2009/28/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources and amending and subsequently repealing Directives 2001/77/EC and 2003/30/EC, read in the light of recitals 8, 14 and 25 thereof and of the principles of legal certainty and the protection of legitimate expectations, and Article 16 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
must be interpreted as not precluding national legislation which, in the context of the replacement of a national support scheme for electricity produced from renewable sources based on quotas for that electricity to be injected into the national network and based on the granting of green certificates to undertakings producing that electricity by a national support scheme for the same electricity based on the grant of incentive feed-in tariffs to those undertakings, makes the benefit of that latter scheme subject to the conclusion of an agreement on the conditions for granting that support between such an undertaking and an entity controlled by the State responsible for the management and review of that latter scheme, including for the undertakings which, in view of the date on which their plants were operating, benefited from the national support scheme based on quotas and the granting of green certificates.


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            OJ C 179, 22.5.2023.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/4832/oj
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