Law in the EU's Circular Energy System

Biofuel, Biowaste and Biogas

Lucila de Almeida, Josephine Van Zeben (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

292 Seiten

2023
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80220-586-2 (ISBN)

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Adopting a holistic and multidisciplinary approach, this expertly crafted book comprehensively maps out the complex multi-jurisdictional legal landscape pertaining to the EU’s circular energy system. Offering in-depth critical analysis, it identifies several areas of law and policy that require further scholarly inquiry to ensure the creation of an effective policy framework which can facilitate the move from a linear to a circular energy system.

In three thematic sections, the expert contributors first examine the interactions between EU law and policy for waste, agriculture, food and forestry. Focus is then drawn to how, when, and by whom the energy sources created from biowaste can become part of the EU’s energy mix. A range of legal instruments that impact the financing of the circular energy system through taxation, EU financing, and state aid are also considered. The book concludes by reflecting on inefficiencies and ineffectiveness caused by these interactions of legal and policy areas related to the circular energy system.

This insightful and progressive book will be of great interest to practitioners and policymakers looking to better understand the legal complexities of implementing a circular energy system. It will also prove an essential read for scholars and students interested in environmental law, energy law, European law, and affordable and clean energy studies.

Edited by Lucila de Almeida, Abreu Chair of ESG Impact, NOVA School of Law and Centre for Research on Law and Society (CEDIS), Portugal; Part-time Professor, Florence School of Regulation, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Italy and Josephine van Zeben, Chair of Transnational Law, Florence School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute, Italy

Contents:

1 The EU’s circular energy system and the Green Deal 1
Lucila de Almeida and Josephine van Zeben

PART I FROM WASTE TO BIOFUELS AND BIOGAS
2 Waste in the circular energy system 17
Geert van Calster
3 Agricultural waste to biofuel and biogas: law and policy 28
Mirta Alessandrini, Edwin Alblas, and Lin Batten
4 Food waste to biogas and biofuel: law and policy 49
Madhura Rao, Aalt Bast, and Alie de Boer
5 Forestry waste to biofuel and biogas: law and policy 70
Elisa Cavallin

PART II THE USE OF BIOFUEL AND BIOGAS IN THE
CIRCULAR ENERGY SYSTEM
6 From gas to biogas from biowaste: heating, power
generation, and cogeneration 103
Maciej M Sokołowski
7 Sustainable biofuels and gaseous biomass fuels from
biowaste in the EU transport sector 129
Piero Carlo dos Reis, Phillip Lugmayr, and Benjamin Gomado
8 Methane emission in a circular economy 160
Maria Olczak and Andris Piebalgs

PART III CROSS-SECTORAL ISSUES
9 The Energy Tax Directive reform 182
Álvaro Antón Antón
10 EU law and policy shaping supranational and national
investment in biofuel and biogas transition 205
Agnieszka Smoleńska
11 Energy State aid 226
Allard Knook
12 Renewable support schemes and Guarantees of Origin
applied to renewable energy regulation 239
Alberto Pototschnig and Ilaria Conti
13 The (in)coherence–(in)effectiveness nexus of the EU’s
circular energy system 261
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Index 269

Erscheinungsdatum	05.12.2023
Reihe/Serie	New Horizons in Environmental and Energy Law series
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Umweltrecht
ISBN-10	1-80220-586-1 / 1802205861
ISBN-13	978-1-80220-586-2 / 9781802205862
Zustand	Neuware