Capacity Mechanisms in the EU Energy Market

Leigh Hancher is Professor of European Law at Tilburg University, and part-time Professor at the Florence School of Regulation. She is also Of Counsel at the Amsterdam office of Allen & Overy LLP. She is a well-known EU law expert and has counselled firms in a broad range of procedures. She is the author of numerous titles, including EU State Aids (4th ed, Sweet & Maxwell 2012) and EU Competition and Internal Market Law in the HealthcareSector (with Wolf Sauter, OUP 2012).Dr Adrien de Hauteclocque is a Law Clerk (Référendaire) at the Court of Justice of the European Union and an Adviser of the Florence School of Regulation (European University Institute). He is also a visiting lecturer at École Nationale dAdministration (France). His research interests include EU antitrust and state aid law, competition policy in network industries and the law & economics of energy regulation. He is a regular speaker in international conferences andhas published numerous academic articles and book chapters. He authored recently Market Building Through Antitrust: Long-term Contract Regulation in EU Electricity Markets (Edward Elgar 2014).Dr Malgorzata Sadowska is Research Fellow at the European University Institute, and Coordinator of the Energy Law & Policy Area at the Florence School of Regulation, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. She is the author of Committed to reform? Pragmatic antitrust enforcement in electricity markets (Intersentia 2014) and has published a number of papers on energy regulation and competition policy in top European law and economics journals.