EU Law as an Instrument for Energy Justice

Ensuring Energy Security in a Contemporary Global Context (2021-2024)

Principal Investigator: Dr Kaisa Huhta

The project, led by Dr Kaisa Huhta, examines the role of European Union law in addressing the justice dimensions of ensuring energy security in the global low-carbon transition. The project analyses the structure, interpretation and functioning of EU law in an effort to find alignment between the imperative of ensuring energy security and the theoretical ideal of energy justice. The research project develops theoretical energy justice criteria for law that enable the EU to achieve energy security in a just and equitable way without compromising the low-carbon transition.

The research is funded by the Academy of Finland (grant 340998).

Project publications:

Kaisa Huhta and Leonie Reins, ‘Solidarity in EU Law and Its Application in the Energy Sector’ International and Comparative Law Quarterly (2023).

Kaisa Huhta, ‘EU:n toimivallan reunaehdot puhtaan energian siirtymälle’, Ympäristöjuridiikka (2023). (Translated title: ‘The limits of EU competences in the energy transition’)

Mariia Kozlova, Kaisa Huhta and Alena Lohrmann, ‘The interface between subsidies for renewable energy and security of supply: reviewing capacity mechanisms and support schemes for renewable energy in Europe’ Energy Policy (2023).

Kaisa Huhta, ‘The evolution of the public security defence in EU free movement law: lessons from the energy sector’ Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies (2023).

Kaisa Huhta and Seita Romppanen, ‘Comparing legal disciplines as an approach to understanding the role of law in decarbonizing societies’ Transnational Environmental Law (2023).

Kaisa Huhta, ‘Conceptualizing Energy Justice in the Context of Human Rights Law’, Nordic Journal of Human Rights (2023).

Kaisa Huhta, ‘Case T‑295/20 Aquind: Clarifying the division of powers in the EU energy sector’, European Energy and Environmental Law Review (2023).

Seita Romppanen and Kaisa Huhta, ‘The Interface Between EU Climate and Energy Law’, Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law (2023).

Kaisa Huhta and Seita Romppanen, ‘Why is energy law resistant to changes required by climate policies?’ Energy and Climate Change (2023).

Kaisa Huhta, Energy Security in the Energy Transition: A Legal Perspective, in Geoffrey Wood, Vincent Onyang, Komali Yenneti and Mariana Liakopoulou (eds), Handbook of Zero Carbon Energy Systems and Energy Transitions (Palgrave, 2022).

Seita Romppanen and Kaisa Huhta, ’EU:n ilmasto- ja energiaoikeus kestävyysmurroksen vauhdittajina’, Ympäristöpolitiikan- ja oikeuden vuosikirja (2022) (Translated title: The EU climate and energy law as catalysts for the sustainability transition).

Jaakko Jääskeläinen, Kaisa Huhta and Sanna Syri, ‘The Anatomy of Unaffordable Electricity in Northern Europe in 2021’, Energies (2022).

Niko Soininen, Seita Romppanen, Kaisa Huhta and Antti Belinskij, ‘A brake or an accelerator? The role of law in sustainability transitions’, 41 Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions (2021), 71-73.

Leigh Hancher, Adrien de Hauteclocque, Kaisa Huhta and Malgorzata Sadowska (eds.), Capacity Mechanisms in the EU Energy Market. Law, Policy, and Economics (Oxford University Press 2022).

Peter Oliver and Kaisa Huhta, ‘Free Movement of Goods in the Labyrinth of Energy Policy and Capacity Mechanisms’, in Leigh Hancher, Adrien de Hauteclocque, Kaisa Huhta and Malgorzata Sadowska (eds.), Capacity Mechanisms in the EU Energy Market. Law, Policy, and Economics (Oxford University Press 2022).

Kaisa Huhta, ‘The contribution of energy law to the energy transition and energy research’, 73 Global Environmental Change (2022).

Kaisa Huhta, ‘The ‘Fit for 55’ -Package in the Context of EU Energy Law and Policy’, 1 OGEL (2022).

Kaisa Huhta, ‘C-718/18 Commission v. Germany: Critical Reflections on the Independence of National Regulatory Authorities in EU Energy Law’, 30(6) European Energy and Environmental Law Review (2021), 255-265.

Kaisa Huhta, ‘The Scope of State Sovereignty under Article 194(2) TFEU and the Evolution of EU Competences in the Energy Sector’, 4 International & Comparative Law Quarterly (2021).

Ruven Fleming, Kaisa Huhta and Leonie Reins, ‘What Is Sustainable Energy Democracy in Law’? in Kaisa Huhta, Ruven Fleming and Leonie Reins (eds.), Sustainable Energy Democracy and the Law (Brill, 2021).

Niko Soininen and Kaisa Huhta, ‘Law for Decentralized Electricity Systems. Lessons from Complexity Theory’, in Ruven Fleming, Kaisa Huhta and Leonie Reins (eds.), Sustainable Energy Democracy and the Law (Brill, 2021).

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