Martha M. Roggenkamp is professor of Energy Law at the University of Groningen and Director of the Groningen Centre of Energy Law. She is also a board member of the Groningen Energy and Sustainability Program (GESP) and the coordinator of the North Sea Energy Law Program and the specialization 'Energy and Climate Law" in the LLM European Law. She has published widely on energy law issues since the early 1990s. She is the author of the monograph "Oil and Gas: Netherlands Law and Practice" (Chancery 1991) and "Het Juridisch Kader van Pijpleidingen in de Olie- en Gasindustrie" (PhD, Intersentia 1999). She is one of the co-editors of the book "Energy Law in Europe" (OUP 2003, 2007 and 2015), The Regulation of Power Exchanges in Europe (Intersentia 2004), the "European Energy Law Report I - X (Intersentia 2004-2014), "Legal Design of Carbon Capture and Storage-Developments in the Netherlands from an International and EU Perspective" (Intersentia 2009), "Energy Networks and the Law - Innovative Solutions in Changing Markets"(OUP 2012) and "Essential EU Climate Law"(Edgar Elgar forthcoming 2015).She also has the chair of the Dutch Association of Energy Lawyers and as a member of the Academic Advisory Group of the Section on Energy, Environment and Infrastructure law of the IBA she has participated in several research projects covering issues such as "Security of Energy Supply", "Human Rights in the Energy Sector", "Reregulating the Energy and Natural Resources Sector" and "The Law of Energy Underground" (all published at OUP). In addition, she is editor in chief of the series Energy & Law published by Intersentia (Antwerp), member of the editorial board of the Dutch Journal of Energy Law and of the editorial committee of the Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law, the International Energy Law Review and the Renewable Energy Law and Policy Review. Catherine Banet is Associate Professor, Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, Energy and Resources Law Department, University of Oslo, Norway.

'[...], this edited collection constitutes a meaningful contribution to the literature on European and international energy law at large.' -- Matteo Fermeglia, Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law, 2020.'In the current volume, the editors have provided the reader with an overarching theme, which, according to the editors, is based on the common thread discussed in the seminar, namely the liberalization of the energy market in combination with the increased use of renewable energy sources.' -- Sirja-Leena Penttinen, Oil, Gas & Energy Law Intelligence, 2021.

• Table of Contents and preliminary matter (p. 0) Introduction (p. 1) NEWCOMERS IN THE ELECTRICITY MARKET: AGGREGATORS AND STORAGE Chapter I. How is the Energy Sector Faring at the EU Courts? A Year in Review (p. 13) Chapter II. Newcomers in the Belgian Electricity Market: Aggregators (p. 35) Chapter III. Aggregation of Distributed Energy Resources in the United States: Current Uses and Potential for More Widespread Deployment (p. 57) Chapter IV. Potential Hurdles to the Regulation of Electricity Storage Development in the UK (p. 79) HYDROPOWER CONCESSIONS IN THE EU: A NEED FOR LIBERALISATION OR PRIVATISATION? Chapter V. Power-to-Gas and Hydrogen for Energy Storage under EU Energy Law (p. 101) Chapter VI. EU Law and Norwegian Hydropower Legislation: A Challenging Interface (p. 127) Chapter VII. The Legal Regime of Hydroelectric Licences in France (p. 153) Chapter VIII. Hydropower Concessions in Italy (p. 165) INVESTMENTS AND DISINVESTMENTS IN THE ENERGY SECTOR Chapter IX. Hydroelectric Concessions: The Portuguese Legal Framework (p. 173) Chapter X. The EU Approach to the Regulation of Guarantees of Origin (p. 197) Chapter XI. The Screening of Foreign Direct Investments into the European Union: Regulation 2019/452 and its Implications for Energy Investments (p. 219) Chapter XII. Closure of Nuclear Power Plants in Germany, Sweden and France: Different Strategies for Different Results (p. 245) OFFSHORE DECOMMISSIONING IN THE NORTH SEA Chapter XIII. Phasing Out Coal-Fired Power Plants in the European Union: Examples from the Netherlands and Germany (p. 261) Chapter XIV. The Regulation of Decommissioning in the Netherlands: From Removal to Re-Use (p. 289) Chapter XV. Decommissioning of Offshore Installations upon the UK Continental Shelf (p. 307) Chapter XVI. Regulation of Infrastructure Decommissioning in the Danish Offshore Oil and Gas Sector: The Final Chapter in the Danish Oil Adventure (p. 329) CCS AS A CLIMATE TOOL: NORTH SEA PRACTICE Chapter XVII. Decommissioning Practice in Norway (p. 351) Chapter XVIII. CCS Legislation in Norway: The EU CCS Directive and its Implementation into Norwegian Law (p. 369) Chapter XIX. Developments in UK Carbon Capture and Storage (p. 387) FROM EU CLIMATE GOALS TO NATIONAL CLIMATE LAWS Chapter XX. Carbon Capture and Storage in the Netherlands: A Long and Winding Process (p. 405) Chapter XXI. A Stocktake of Legal Research on the United Kingdoms Climate Change Act: Present Understandings, Future Opportunities (p. 421) Chapter XXII. The Swedish Climate Policy Framework and the Climate Act (p. 443) Chapter XXIII. Climate Litigation, Climate Act and Climate Agreement in the Netherlands (p. 457)