With the rapid growth of the renewable energy sector, it has become increasingly important to understand how renewable energy is defined in national laws around the world and what regulatory mechanisms these countries are deploying to achieve their renewable energy goals. In Renewable Energy...

Climate regulation of the electricity sector is one of the most important growing — and rapidly changing — areas of law and policy today. This is both because of the critical role that electricity plays in modern society, acting as economic lifeblood, and because of electricity's part in...

Australia will become the world's largest LNG producer by 2018. This Chapter explores the development of the Australian LNG industry. It then analyses some of the legal and commercial issues currently being experienced by the Australian LNG industry. In particular, it will evaluate the legal...

With the increasing penetration of renewable energy generation into the transmission and distribution networks, the problem of managing growing volumes of variable generation needs to be addressed. Energy storage has the potential to help address this problem by storing commercially useful...

The Australian National Electricity Objective states that the National Electricity Law operates to promote ‘…electricity services for the long term interests of consumers of electricity.' Thus it has sometimes been said that the Australian energy sector has adopted a ‘consumer-centric'...

Wind energy will play an important role in the development of Australia’s renewable energy sector. However, there have been a growing number of private and statutory cases brought in the United States and the United Kingdom seeking relief from the alleged interferences arising from...

This Report was commissioned by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre to advise a number of energy consumer advocacy groups about the institutional and governance arrangements of the Australian National Electricity Market as part of the Vertigan Review. The purpose of this Report was to review the...