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Home > News & Events > News > OGEL & TDM Call for Papers: Special Issue on Renewable Energy Disputes

OGEL & TDM Call for Papers: Special Issue on Renewable Energy Disputes

13 October 2014

Update March 2015: The OGEL 3 (2015) - Renewable Energy Disputes has been published.

Oil, Gas, and Energy Law Journal (www.ogel.org) and Transnational Dispute Management (www.transnational-dispute-management.com) invite submissions for a joint Special Issue on Renewable Energy Disputes.

Renewable energy production is nothing new: windmills have been used to produce wind-based energy and dams have been used to produce mechanical energy for centuries past. However, the scale of investment in this area and the increased subsidies, regulation of and drive towards this type of electricity generation are unprecedented. Given the surge in activity in renewable energy production, it is no surprise that disputes in this area have started to arise.

Issues that have led to disputes within the EU, the US and globally have, for example, related to the national governments’ objective of ensuring maximum national or regional benefit from governmental measures in this area (similar to what is done in oil and gas-producing countries through local content requirements), miscalculations of subsidies in the planning stages and excessive costs for the state from such subsidies, especially when economic circumstances have changed. Furthermore, the scale of activities has in itself contributed to all kinds of disputes arising at various levels and various forums. These disputes may involve issues of public international law, EU and US law (at the supranational, national and subnational levels), private law and contractual arrangements. The Special Issue examines these types of disputes and analyses their backgrounds and the reasons why they arose. Recent and ongoing renewable energy disputes under international law have concerned international investment law and WTO law. However, recent renewable energy disputes at European level have mostly related to the free movement provisions of EU Treaty law. Contractual arrangements and connection issues serve as illustrations of private and contractual disputes in these areas.

This OGEL/TDM Special Issue on Renewable Energy Disputes will examine all kinds of renewable energy disputes. The basic structure of the special issue is:

Introduction: Renewable energy disputes: an overview - Professor Kim Talus (UEF Law School)

I) Public International Law Disputes

  • WTO cases: an overview (already in preparation)
  • WTO case against Canada (Ontario local content requirement) (already in preparation)
  • Investment Disputes in Renewable Energy (already in preparation)
  • Further proposals welcome!

II) EU Law Disputes

  • Judgment Ålands Vindkraft (already in preparation)
  • Judgment Essent (already in preparation)
  • Further proposals welcome!

III) National and Subnational Law and Commercial or Contractual Law Disputes

  • Spain: Spanish Supreme Court and ICSID cases against Spain (already in preparation)
  • UK Renewable Disputes (already in preparation)
  • Further proposals welcome!

OGEL and TDM encourage submission of relevant papers, studies, and comments on various aspects of this subject, including International, regional and national disputes on various aspects of renewable energy disputes.

Contributions discussing a particular topic within this area, such as need to reform the ISDS with regards renewable energy and climate change, are also welcome.

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