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Call for Papers: OGEL Special Issue on "Clean Energy Projects and Risk Mitigation"

27 October 2025

Co-editors: Dr. Tade Oyewunmi,[1] Dietrich Hoefner,[2] Ben Busboom,[3] Professor Tina Soliman Hunter[4].

The momentum towards energy and industrial decarbonisation has gained traction over the past decade, enhanced by investments in clean energy technologies such as renewables, carbon capture, use, and storage (CCUS), hybrid and electric-powered vehicles, low-carbon or synthetic fuels, energy storage batteries, and hydrogen. As with most energy systems, these technologies are capital-intensive and therefore need to be developed in a cost-efficient and sustainable manner while being deployed at scale. Securing investments and managing projects that utilise these decarbonisation technologies within the context of existing networks or markets (e.g., power or transportation) presents unique challenges and risks, including those related to investment risks, changes in law and regulatory risks, operational and resiliency risks. Typically, the respective parties, sponsors, and participants engaged in clean energy projects rely on contractual tools and policy measures to address and mitigate such challenges and risks. Examples of such policy measures include fiscal incentives under the Inflation Reduction Act in the US or the EU's package of incentives to support Renewable fuels of non-biological origin (RFNBO). Contractual approaches such as contracts for difference (CfDs) and industrial decarbonisation programs in Europe or the Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCU) Scheme are becoming some of the key tools necessary to address emerging risks in deploying clean energy technologies at scale and reliably.

The OGEL Energy Law Journal (OGEL, ISSN 1875-418X, www.ogel.org) is opening this call for papers and accepting submissions, studies, and commentaries examining law and policy measures aimed at mitigating risks in developing clean energy projects, including:

1. Defining risks in clean energy projects
2. Policy measures for mitigating risks in decarbonisation projects
3. Contractual approaches for risk mitigation and allocation
4. Insurance and clean energy projects
5. Comparing voluntary and compliance carbon markets
6. Permitting and key milestones for clean energy projects
7. Mineral resources for clean energy projects
8. Reliability and resilience in carbon-neutral energy and industrial systems
9. Incentives and regulatory approaches for clean energy technologies
10. Investment protection and risks in cross-border energy projects

Submit an abstract with a maximum of 500 words, including a brief outline of the paper, at your earliest convenience to info@ogel.org and CC the editors. Final papers are to be submitted by 30 May 2026.

Editors:

Please CC info@ogel.org when you submit material or have any questions.

The minimum word count of articles should be 5000 words (excluding footnotes, endnotes, appendices, tables, summaries, etc.). Articles should include summaries (150-200 words). The preferred referencing styles are the Oxford Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA) (see OSCOLA Quick Reference Guide) and the Bluebook referencing style. The layout of the articles should conform to OGEL's submission guidelines available at www.ogel.org/contribute.asp (more information available upon request).

Feel free to forward this call for papers to colleagues who may be interested in contributing to the special issue.

This call for papers can also be found on the OGEL website here: https://www.ogel.org/news.asp?key=841

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