Public-private partnerships: energy services' contracting as a paradigm of a sustainable economy's model

Abstract

In the present assignment the sustainability of the Welfare State is approached from a legal-public point of view as public agreements are essential in terms of economic sustainability. In particular PPP are significant because of the volume of resources and also costs that generate in the market.

With occasion of the PAEE in the buildings of the AGE the Government has established that this Plan needs to be materialized in an imperative way through the award of CCPP. Also, the recent Law of Sustainable Economy also presents a series of measures to impulse the sustainable public agreements; they study whether the regulation of PPP in the LCSP can actually satisfy the objectives pursued, that are the reduction of public expenses and the economic stimulus.

For this purpose, first of all, the phenomenon of PPP is set in a context and is delimited in relation with the PPP contract regulated by the Law 30/2007 of contracts of the Public Sector, taking into consideration the scope of the modifications of the Law of Sustainable Economy and considering if these modifications will allow the contract function ability.

The advantages and inconveniences of using this type of contracts are also pointed out as well as the implications that derive from it's promotion within the framework of the energy services agreements as a paradigm of a sustainable economy's model.