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23.01.2025
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Profile
Thorsten Kirch is a lawyer specializing in energy law and counsel at GÖRG Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten in Cologne. He has many years of experience in advising energy supply companies, plant operators and project developers in connection with the transformation of the energy industry from a centralized conventional energy supply to a decentralized energy supply through renewable energies (energy transition). With his expertise in energy law, he supports the realization of onshore and offshore wind farms, solar plants and energy storage systems. He also supports the ramp-up of a hydrogen economy to decarbonize the transport and industrial sectors and the transformation of the heat supply for buildings and industry to a climate-neutral heat supply (heat transition).
Thorsten Kirch also has particular expertise in the enforcement and defense of claims in judicial and extrajudicial legal disputes in the energy sector, especially in the offshore wind energy sector.
Thorsten Kirch is a founding member of the legal advisory board of the German Offshore Wind Energy Association (BWO) and the author of numerous publications on energy industry law.
Languages
German
English
Career
2024
GÖRG
Counsel
2019
GÖRG
Associated partner
2013
Energy supply company
Client Secondment
2013
Admitted to the bar
2011-2013
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Advisor in the legal department
Legal advice for management and specialist departments
Coordination of legislation and litigation
2007-2010
Cologne Higher Regional Court
Legal clerkship
2002-2007
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Study of law
Focus: Constitutional and administrative law; public commercial law
Memberships and awards
German Bar Association (DAV)
Cologne Bar Association (KAV)
EEHH - Renewable Energy Hamburg Cluster Agency
WAB - The Wind Energy Agency
Legal advisory board of the German Wind Energy Association Offshore (BWO)
