Dr Leigh Hancher is a part-time Professor and the Director of the Energy Union Law Area at the Florence School of Regulation (EUI), Florence, and Professor of European Law at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.Dr Adrien de Hauteclocque is a Law Clerk (Référendaire) with Vice-President M van der Woude at the Court of Justice of the European Union (General Court), Luxembourg, and an Adviser of the Florence School of Regulation, Florence.Dr Francesco Maria Salerno is the partner heading the Brussels office of law firm Gianni Origoni Grippo Cappelli & Partners.

• PART I: THE DEFINITION OF STATE AID1. What is State Aid? Falk Schöning and Clemens Ziegler2. State Aid and Price Regulation in the Energy Sector Guillaume Dezobry and Adrien de Hauteclocque3. State Aid and Taxation: Special Focus on Energy and the Environment Lena Sandberg4. WTO Subsidy Rules: Implications for Energy Anna-Alexandra MarholdPART II: COMPATIBILITY ISSUES5. Compatibility of RES: A Legal and Economic Approach Francesco Maria Salerno, Sébastien Douguet and Vincent Rious6. Capacity Mechanisms and Auctions Leigh Hancher and Christoph Riechmann7. Cross-Border Participation in Capacity Mechanisms: Legal and Economic Issues Fabien Roques, Charles Verhaeghe and Guillaume Dezobry8. Aid to Nuclear and Coal Leigh Hancher and Max Klasse9. Projects of Common Interest and Energy Infrastructure Projects Julia Sack, Kristina Zych and Kai Uwe Pritzsche10. Services of General Economic Interest and EU State Aid Control in Energy Markets Adrien de Hauteclocque, Francesco Maria Salerno and Simina SuciuPART III: PROCEDURES11. State Aid Recovery and the Energy Sector Jacques Derenne12. Arbitration Johannes Koepp, Alejandro Escobar, Laurie Frey and Ernesto Feliz13. Common EU Law Principles of Private Enforcement of State Aid Georg M Berrisch and Brian R ByrnePART IV: STATE AID AND ENERGY IN NATIONAL COURTS, THE EEA AND THE ENERGY COMMUNITY14. Germany Falk Schöning and Clemens Ziegler15. France Liliana Eskenazi16. Netherlands Marinus Winters17. Austria Moritz Am Ende and Judith Grimm18. Italy Pierluigi Congedo19. Greece Antonis Metaxas20. Belgium Wim Vandenberghe21. Spain Jose Luis Buendía and Miguel Ángel Bolsa22. State Aid and the EEA Svein Terje Tveit and Jens Naas-Bibow23. State Aid Enforcement in the Energy Community Marco Botta and Rozeta Karova

This is the first book-length treatment of EU state-aid law in the energy sector... The map drawn by the book offers useful guidance to the readers and also alerts them to the number of open issues.