Sustainable Energy Law Notebook

The Swedish National Audit Office ( Riksrevisionen ) has just published a report on how Vattenfall performs in the energy transition . More precisely, the report looks at the role played by the Swedish state in terms of governance and concludes that " the government has not been sufficiently proactive in its governance of the company and has not followed up emission reductions ." Full report in Swedish available here . And English summary here . Source : "Vattenfall - konkurrenskraftigt och ledande i energiomställningen?" (RiR 2015:6) "Vattenfall - a competitive leader in energy transition?" (RiR 2015:6)

The 27th European Energy Law Seminar is organised on 25-26 January 2016 in The Hague, The Netherlands (hotel Hilton). On the programme:  Energy Union, protection of investments in energy infrastructures, latest EU case law, recent competition cases, offshore electricity grid, EU LNG strategy, smart metering, energy storage, heat supply, internal energy market, tariff codes, offshore safety regulation, electricity storage, transparency in supply contracts, retail energy markets. Full programme and registration details will be published shortly on the Dutch Energy Law Association NeVER website: http://www.never.nl Further information : NeVER secretariat secretariaat@never.nl or University of Oslo catherine.banet@jus.uio.no Organisation committee institutions : NeVER; University of Groningen, Centre of Energy Law; University of Oslo, Petroleum and Energy Law Department of the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law

The European Environmental Law Forum (EELF) holds its third annual conference in Aix-en-Provence , France on 2-3 September. The topic of the conference is: Effectiveness in Environmental Law . I will be presenting a paper on " Double burden in environmental regulation: the simultaneous application of a carbon tax and an emissions trading scheme to the offshore petroleum sector in Norway ." The presentation will be subject to a publication later this year.  The general programme of the conference can be accessed  here .