Erdgas ist der Brennstoff, dessen Verbrauch momentan am schnellsten ansteigt. Besonders Flüssigerdgas hat sich in den letzten Jahren zu einem wichtigen Faktor auf dem weltweiten Energiemarkt entwickelt. Seit 2000 hat sich die globale Nachfrage nach Flüssigerdgas jährlich um 6,6% erhöht, und...

This paper aims at highlighting the Commission's approach towards the relation between sector specific regulation and general competition law, especially concerning energy markets and the road to Internal Market objective.We firstly present Trinko case, in order to focus on two crucial and...

Like other network industries, the European gas supply industry has been liberalised, along the lines of what has been done in the United Kingdom and the United States, by opening up to competition the upstream and downstream segments of essential transmission infrastructure. The aim of this...

Like other network industries, the European gas supply industry has been liberalised, along the lines of what has been done in the United Kingdom and the United States, by opening up to competition the upstream and downstream segments of essential transmission infrastructure. The aim of this...

Energy plays a vital role in the development of any economy and given its unequal distribution trade in energy, especially fossil fuels, is an important component of international trade. In the past, due to its public good characteristics, energy-related services were mostly supplied by the...

While we may not have a better crystal ball than anyone else, in our advisory work, we do have good visibility on what folks are looking at and "where the money is going." Without betraying any confidences, we have assembled a high-level perspective on some of the activity, trends, and outlook...

Two recent events in the energy sector – the Macondo well blowout in the U.S. coastal waters and a series of equipment failures at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant in Japan – have shown that current definitions of who pays for accidental pollution damage and third parties' losses are...

Trinidad and Tobago is a small, energy-based, developing economy of the Caribbean. Using the most recent available data (2007) the energy sector in this country accounts for approximately 87 percent of exports, 48 percent of government revenue and 43 percent of gross domestic product....