Innovation in Energy Law and Technology Dynamic Solutions for Energy Transitions

by Zillman, Donald; Godden, Lee; Paddock, LeRoy; Roggenkamp, Martha

• ISBN13: 9780191861161
• ISBN10: 0191861162
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2018-05-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

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, 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.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, The Editors
2. Climate Change Legislation: Law for Sound Climate and Energy Transition Policy-Making, Barry Barton and Jennifer Campion
3. Innovation, Sustainability, and Energy for All in Africa, Yinka Omorogbe
4. Transition to a Low Carbon Energy Economy: The Legal Agenda, Alastair R. Lucas, and Chidinma B. Thompson
5. Smart Cities and Smart Regulation: Accelerating Innovative Renewable Technologies in Energy Systems to Mitigate Climate Change, Anita Ronne
6. 'Techno-nationalism' in a Context of Energy Transition: Regulating Innovation in Marine Renewable Energy Technologies, Catherine Banet
7. International regulatory challenges of new developments in offshore nuclear energy technologies: Transportable Nuclear Power Plants, Catherine Redgwell and Efthymios Papastavridis
8. Innovation in Nuclear Power: How We Got Here and How to Move Forward, Daniel F. Stenger, Amy C. Roma, Sachin Desai
9. The Innovative Use of Hydrogen: EU and US Regulatory Approaches, Ruven Fleming and Joshua Fershee
10. Electricity Storage for Renewable Energy Production: An Assessment of the European Union (EU) Regulatory Framework, Matthijs van Leeuwen
11. Regulation of Electricity Storage, Intelligent Grids and Clean Energies in an Open Market in Mexico, Jose Juan Gonzalez Marquez and Margarita Gonzalez Brambila
12. Are Coal and Innovations in Thermal Production a Solution to Climate Change?: The Electricity System in Colombia, Milton Fernando Montoya
13. Tortuous Path to Efficiency and Innovation in Heat Supply: Lessons from the Russian Experience with District Heating, Anatole Boule and Sergey Seliverstov
14. Unconventional Gas Development 2.0: Reducing the 'Environmental Footprint' Through New Technologies, Don C Smith
15. Challenges to Regulating Hydraulic Fracturing in South Africa: Technological Innovation and Law-making for Climate Change at the Crossroads, Hanri Mostert and H.M. van den Berg
16. Innovation in the EU Gas Sector - Injection of Biomethane into the Natural Gas System, Martha Roggenkamp, Jacob Sandholt and Daisy Tempelman
17. Transitioning to a Lower Carbon Future: Phasing out coal and promoting renewables in Alberta's electricity sector, Nigel Bankes
18. Support for renewable energies and the creation of a truly competitive electricity market: The case of the European Union, Inigo del Guayo
19. Technological Innovation and the Reform of the Chinese Electric Power System, Wang Mingyuan and Gao Lailong
20. Financing Renewable Energy in Brazil: Challenges of Climate Change and Innovation, Yanko Marcius de Alencar Xavier and Anderson Souza da Silva Lanzillo
21. Advancing Innovations in Renewable Energy Technologies as Alternatives to Fossil Fuel Use in the Middle East: Trends, Limitations and Ways Forward, Damilola Olawuyi
22. Energy Supply Planning in a Distributed Energy Resources World, LeRoy Paddock and Karyan San Martano
23. Smart Infrastructure: Innovative Energy Technology, Climate Mitigation and Consumer Protection, Lee Godden and Anne Kallies
24. Conclusion, The Editors