Innovation in Energy Law and Technology

Dynamic Solutions for Energy Transitions

Edited by Donald Zillman, Lee Godden, LeRoy Paddock, and Martha Roggenkamp

Provides analysis of the law as it currently stands
Examines how the law could guarantee human rights, sustainable development, and the eradication of energy poverty in this area
Discusses complex current problems such as structural barriers and energy path dependencies
Illustrates how energy law might be divergent in multiple different countries

Innovation in Energy Law and Technology

Dynamic Solutions for Energy Transitions

Edited by Donald Zillman, Lee Godden, LeRoy Paddock, and Martha Roggenkamp

Description

There are few existential challenges more serious in the twenty first century than energy transition. As current trends in energy production prove unsustainable for the environment, energy security, and economic development, innovation becomes imperative. Yet, with technological challenges, come legal challenges. Zillman, Godden, Paddock, and Roggenkamp assemble a team of experts in their field to debate how the law may have to adapt to changes in the area. What regulatory approach should be used? How do we deal with longer-term investment horizons and so called 'stranded assets' such as coal-fired power stations? And can a form of energy justice be achieved which encompasses human rights, sustainable development goals, and the eradication of energy poverty?

With a concept as unwieldy as energy innovation, it is high time for a text tackling changes which are dynamic and diverse across different communities, and which provides a thorough examination of the legal ramifications of the most recent technological changes. This book which be of vital importance to lawyers, policy-makers, economists, and the general reader.

Innovation in Energy Law and Technology

Dynamic Solutions for Energy Transitions

Edited by Donald Zillman, Lee Godden, LeRoy Paddock, and Martha Roggenkamp

1: Introduction: How Technological and Legal Innovation Are Transforming Energy Law
Part I: Context for Legal Innovations in Energy
2: Climate Change Legislation: Law for Sound Climate and Energy Transition Policy-Making, Barry Barton and Jennifer Campion
3: Transition to a Low-Carbon Energy Economy: The Legal Agenda, Alastair R. Lucas and Chidinma B. Thompson
4: Smart Cities and Smart Regulation: Accelerating Innovative Renewable Technologies in Energy Systems to Mitigate Climate Change, Anita Rønne
5: 'Techno-nationalism' in the Context of Energy Transition: Regulating Technology Innovation in Offshore Wind Technologies, Catherine Banet
Part II: Impact of Leading Edge Technologies
6: International Regulatory Challenges of New Developments in Offshore Nuclear Energy Technologies: Transportable Nuclear Power Plants, Catherine Redgwell and Efthymios Papastavridis
7: Innovation in Nuclear Power: How We Got Here and How to Move Forward, Daniel F. Stenger, Amy C. Roma, Sachin Desai
8: The 'Hydrogen Economy' in the United States and the European Union: Regulating Innovation to Combat Climate Change, Ruven Fleming and Joshua Fershee
9: Regulating Electricity Storage in the European Union: How to Balance Technical and Legal Innovation, Matthijs van Leeuwen and Martha Roggenkamp
10: Regulation of Electricity Storage, Intelligent Grids and Clean Energies in an Open Market in Mexico, José Juan González Márquez and Margarita González Brambila
Part III: Traditional Energy Production and Supply Sector
11: The Coal Dilemma: Innovations in Thermal Production in Colombia as a Means to Address the Challenges of Energy Security and Climate Change, Milton Fernando Montoya
12: A Torturous Path to Efficiency and Innovation in Heat Supply: Lessons from the Russian Experience with District Heating, Anatole Boule and Sergey Seliverstov
13: Unconventional Gas Development 2.0: Reducing the 'Environmental Footprint' Through New Technologies, Don C Smith
14: Challenges to Regulating Hydraulic Fracturing in South Africa: Technological Innovation and Law Making for Climate Change at the Crossroads, Hugo Meyer van den Berg and Hanri Mostert
15: Innovation in the EU Gas Sector: Injection of Biomethane into the Natural Gas System, Martha Roggenkamp, Jacob Sandholt and Daisy G. Tempelman
PART IV: Energy Transition through Technological and Legal Innovation
16: Transitioning to a Lower Carbon Future: Phasing out Coal and Promoting Renewables in Alberta's Electricity Sector, Nigel Bankes
17: Support for Renewable Energies and the Creation of a Truly Competitive Electricity Market: The Case of The European Union, Inigo del Guayo Castiella
18: Technological Innovation and the Reform of the Chinese Electric Power System, Wang Mingyuan and Gao Lailong
19: Financing Renewable Energy in Brazil: Challenges of Climate Change and Innovation, Yanko Marcius de Alencar Xavier and Anderson Souza da Silva Lanzillo
20: Advancing Innovations in Renewable Energy Technologies as Alternatives to Fossil Fuel Use in the Middle East: Trends, Limitations and Ways Forward, Damilola S. Olawuyi
21: Energy Supply Planning in a Distributed Energy Resources World, LeRoy Paddock and Karyan San Martano
22: Smart Infrastructure: Innovative Energy Technology, Climate Mitigation, and Consumer Protection in Australia and Germany, Lee Godden and Anne Kallies
23: Conclusion, Donald Zillman, Martha Roggenkamp, LeRoy Paddock, and Lee Godden

Innovation in Energy Law and Technology

Dynamic Solutions for Energy Transitions

Edited by Donald Zillman, Lee Godden, LeRoy Paddock, and Martha Roggenkamp

Author Information

Edited by Donald Zillman, Godfrey Professor of Law and Interim President, University of Maine at Fort Kent, Lee Godden, Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne, LeRoy Paddock, Associate dean for environmental law studies and Professorial Lecturer in Law, George Washington University Law School, and Martha Roggenkamp, Professor of Energy Law, University of Groningen

Donald Zillman has been a tenured faculty member at Arizona State University from 1974-79, the University of Utah from 1979-90, and the University of Maine School of Law from 1991 to the present, where he holds the Edward Godfrey Professorship at the Maine law school.

Lee Godden is Director of the Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

LeRoy Paddock is a Professorial Lecturer in Law, and Associate Dean for Environmental Law Studies at the George Washington University Law School.

Martha Roggenkamp is Professor of Energy Law at the University of Groningen, and Director of the Groningen Centre of Energy Law.

Contributors:

Catherine Banet
Nigel Bankes
Barry Barton
H.M. van den Berg
Anatole Boule
Margarita González Brambila
Jennifer Campion
Sachin Desai
Joshua Fershee
Ruven Fleming
Lee Godden
Inigo del Guayo
Anne Kallies
Gao Lailong
Anderson Souza da Silva Lanzillo
Matthijs van Leeuwen
Alastair R. Lucas
Karyan San Martano
José Juan González Márquez
Wang Mingyuan
Milton Fernando Montoya
Hanri Mostert
Damilola Olawuyi
LeRoy Paddock
Efthymios Papastavridis
Catherine Redgwell
Martha Roggenkamp
Amy C. Roma
Anita Rønne
Jacob Sandholt
Sergey Seliverstov
Don C Smith
Daniel F. Stenger
Daisy Tempelman
Chidinma B. Thompson
Yanko Marcius de Alencar Xavier