International Energy Trade and Access to Energy Networks
Article from: OGEL 2 (2006), in Electricity Interconnectors
Abstract
International energy trade has so far been little developed in the debate and jurisprudence of international trade law. The major reason is that it is only over the last decade that privatisation followed by liberalisation of the former national energy monopolies has opened up increasingly competitive national and then regional markets in energy. There is also a major distinction between trade in "normal" goods and services and trade in energy: Energy trade, at least in electricity and gas, is as a rule network-dependent (the exception in the case of gas is LNG transportation by ...