Energy Market Participants - Economic and Legal Aspects

Dear Colleagues,

The issues of the participants of the energy market are multidimensional, referring both to the economic and legal aspects of the functioning of regulatory entities and other public institutions, which significantly affect the level of free competition and de-monopolization of this market, as well as the instruments of the same type addressed directly to private law entities (entrepreneurs and consumers) important for the functioning of the energy market. The latter issue is particularly interesting from the perspective of the activity of public companies and other entities professionally operating at various stages of energy production, distribution, and sale, which must operate under commercial conditions, but taking into account the limitations resulting from the state's protective policy with regard to weaker market participants. As for the latter group of energy market participants, guarantee instruments focusing on the protection of consumer rights and the perception of the right to energy as a human right of a new generation are of particular importance.

This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to the economic and legal aspects of the participation of various entities in the shaping and functioning of the modern energy market.

Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:

1. As part of the economic aspects, authors may in particular address the following issues.
(a) Energy finance and energy markets, including:

• Economic models;
• Costs and pricing of renewable resources (oil, natural gas, etc.);
• Power transmission;
• Business models;
• Carbon/electricity markets;
• Investment and risk diversification.

(b) Energy demand and supply, including:

• Energy demand management;
• Energy supply chain management;
• Energy supply security and reliability;
• Analysis and forecasting of electric power/natural gas/coal/fuels/petroleum products.

(c) Relationships between energy and economic development, including:

• Energy and national development;
• Energy and urban development;
• Economic growth and sustainable energy production (electricity/coal/household, etc.).

2. As part of the legal aspects, authors may in particular address the following issues.

• Characteristics of legal norms shaping the energy policy of the state as an entity interfering with the functioning of the energy market;
• Participants of the energy market from the perspective of European Union law;
• Subjective aspects of the functioning of the energy market (legal status, rights and obligations, relations between market participants);
• State authorities for the regulation of fuel and energy economy;
• Entrepreneurs as entities of the energy market;
• Powers of the regulatory authority in the field of concessions, registers and tariffs on the energy market;
• Consumers as participants of the energy market;
• The right to energy in the human rights system;
• Legal status and tasks of public-sector entities in the field of energy efficiency;
• Private and public-law financial instruments on the energy market (banks and other financial institutions, state funds, subsidies and grants from public funds, etc.);
• Civil law liability of energy market participants;
• Transmission easement as the basic instrument for the operation of transmission companies on the energy market;
• Criminal law measures as an instrument of state interference in the energy market;
• Non-judicial settlement of disputes between participants of the energy market;
• Court proceedings involving participants of the energy market.

Prof. Dr. Waldemar Tarczyński
Prof. Dr. Kinga Flaga-Gieruszyńska
Guest Editors

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