Energy Policy, Law and Regulation

Achieving global decarbonisation requires changes to policy, regulation and law. DEI is addressing these challenges with a focus on the following topics:

Energy law and regulation
Frameworks for just energy transitions
Climate change litigation
Energy vulnerabilities
Energy planning
How energy policy is agreed

Geo-political factors can shape the global energy landscape in a variety of ways by determining factors such as: the location and accessibility of energy resources; the energy generation or extraction technology available to different countries; the price of energy resources; how countries respond to climate change; and transitions to low-carbon energy systems.

Researchers at DEI are undertaking research into various facets of the geopolitics of energy, investigating the processes through which energy governance is being conducted at a variety of scales and how global political relationships influence the production, distribution, supply and pricing of energy. We are investigating relationships between governments at an international scale, as well as relations between governments and their populace locally, determining the availability and costs of energy as well as the security and the resilience of energy systems.

Current Projects:

North East Energy Masterplanning
Climate Futures - Imagination and its influence on net-zero policy in Scotland

Completed Projects:

Effectiveness of energy system modelling in local government policy making
Building capacity to enhance compliance with domestic legal implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement

Energy Policy, Law and Regulation Researchers

Staff	Research Area
Simone Abram	Energy futures and infrastructures, energy systems integration, socially inclusive energy transitions, regional energy planning
Adebola Adeyemi	Sustainable development, energy law, corporate governance, regulatory instruments of large scale infrastructure projects
Smith Azubuike	Energy justice and transition, energy law and sustainability, risk allocation in the energy sector
Kim Bouwer	Energy and climate law, climate litigation and activism, climate litigation and justice in Africa
Gavin Bridge	Geographies of energy transition and governance, political ecology of resource scarcity and security, questions of property, access and control of resource production and consumption, global production networks
Jack Copley	Capitalist development, governance of the climate crisis, financialisation of the world economy, international political economy
Pauline Destree	Energy politics, cultures and practices, energy transitions and decarbonisation, international development
Can Eken	Investment law, international commercial arbitration, investment law, mediation
Rozemarijn Roland Holst	Global energy governance and development, international environmental law, law of the sea
Gabriela Manley	Climate change and climate policy, political anthropology, anthropology of the future, time and temporality
Laura Marsiliani	Political economy, public economies, environmental economies, international environmental policy
Petra Minnerop	International climate change law, implementation of climate law at the domestic level, international environmental law, intersection of science and law, climate governance and policy
Olivia Wooley	Offshore renewables and law, interstate collaboration on offshore electricity networks, offshore renewables and marine environmental protection, public opposition to offshore renewables, managing conflict between offshore renewables and other sea uses