Capacity Mechanisms in EU Energy Markets Law, Policy, and Economics

by Hancher, Leigh; de Houteclocque, Adrien; Sadowska, Malgorzata

• ISBN13: 9780198749257
• ISBN10: 0198749252
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-11-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Leigh Hancher, Professor and Of Counsel, Tilburg University, European University, Allen & Overy LP,Adrien de Houteclocque, Referendaire and Advisor, Court of Justice of the European Union and Loyola de Palacio Chair,Malgorzata Sadowska, Research Fellow, Coordinator of the Energy Law & Policy Area, Florence School of Regulation

Leigh Hancher is Professor of European Law at Tilburg University, and part-time Professor at the Florence School of Regulation. She is also Of Counsel at the Amsterdam office of Allen & Overy LLP. She is a well-known EU law expert and has counselled firms in a broad range of procedures. She is the author of numerous titles, including EU Competition and Internal Market Law in the Healthcare Sector (with Wolf Sauter, OUP 2012).

Adrien de Hauteclocque is a Legal Secretary (Referendaire) of Judge M. van der Woude at the Court of Justice of the European Union (General Court), Luxembourg, and an Adviser of the Loyola de Palacio Chair. He is the author of Market Building Through Antitrust: Long-term Contract Regulation in EU Electricity Markets (Edward Elgar, 2014).

Malgorzata Sadowska is Research Fellow at the European University Institute, working on the law and economics of energy regulation and competition policy. Since September 2013 she has been responsible for coordinating the activities of the Energy Law & Policy Area at the Florence School of Regulation, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.
Prior to joining FSR, Malgorzata was Researcher at Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC) within a project involving capacity remuneration mechanisms. She also worked at the European Commission, DG Competition, and in leading competition and public law firms in Brussels and Cologne. Malgorzata holds a PhD in Law and Economics (EDLE joint doctoral programme by the Universities of Rotterdam, Bologna and Hamburg, 2013) and Master degrees in Law (University of Gdansk, 2006) and European Studies (University of Hamburg/Europa-Kolleg, 2008).

Table of Contents

Part I: Policy
1. EU Policy on Capacity Mechanisms, Francisco Enrique Gonzalez-Diaz
2. The Regulators' View: ACER's Report on Capacity Mechanisms and the EU Internal Electricity Market, Alberto Pototschnig and Martin Godfried
3. Capacity Mechanisms in the European Market: Now, but How?, Arthur Henriot and Jean-Michel Glachant
Part II: Economics
4. Energy Market Design with Capacity Mechanisms, Jens Perner and Christoph Riechmann
5. Different Approaches for Capacity Mechanisms in Europe: Rationale and Potential for Coordination?, Fabien Roques and Charles Verhaeghe
6. Capacity Mechanisms and Cross-Border Participation: The EU Integrated Approach in Question, Dominique Finon
7. The System Adequacy Problem: Lessons Learned from the American Continent, Carlos Batlle, Paolo Mastropietro, Pablo Rodilla, and Jose Ignacio Perez-Arriaga
8. The Generation Mix, Price Caps, and Capacity Payments, Bert Willems
Part III: Law
9. Capacity Mechanisms and State Aid Control: A European Solution to the 'Missing Money' Problem?, Leigh Hancher
10. Antitrust Law: A Missing Piece in a Regulatory Puzzle?, Adrien de Hauteclocque and Malgorzata Sadowska
11. Free Movement of Goods in the Labyrinth of Energy Policy and Capacity Mechanisms, Peter Oliver
Part IV: Case Studies
12. Austria, Thomas Starlinger and Harald Kropfl
13. Belgium, Wim Vandenberghe and Rene Gonne
14. France, Daniel Crevel-Sander and Charlotte Beaugonin
15. Germany, Kai Uwe Pritzsche and Katharina Reinhardt
16. Greece, Antonis Metaxas
17. Italy, Francesco Maria Salerno
18. Netherlands, Marinus Winters
19. Norway, Jens Naas-Bibow and Catherine Ramstad Wenger
20. Poland, Malgorzata Sadowska
21. Spain, Inigo del Guayo
22. United Kingdom, Peter Willis