Keywords
energy law, energy infrastructure, energy networks, obligation to maintain the operability of equipment, installations and grids in order to provide supply of fuels or energy
Abstract
The reliability and proper condition of network infrastructure is a key element of ensuring the ongoing and uninterrupted supply of fuels and electricity to customers. It also makes it possible for energy system users to benefit from a competitive energy market. With this in mind, Polish legislature imposed on those providing services consisting of the transmission and distribution of fuels and energy, as well as of gas storage and natural gas liquefaction or regasification (of liquefied natural gas), the obligation to keep their infrastructure in good working order. This duty concerns the capability of the equipment, systems and networks to supply the specific fuels or energy in a continuous and reliable manner, while maintaining the existing quality requirements (Article 4 Section 1 of the Polish Energy Law Act). This paper attempts to analyze some of the problems related to the interpretation and application of this legal provision covering: the scope of the ‘maintenance’ obligation under Article 4 Section 1 of the Polish Energy Law Act, its legal nature and the delimitation of its limitations.
Recommended Citation
Będkowski-Kozioł, M. (2013). The obligation to maintain the operability of equipment, installations and grids in order to ensure the supply of fuels or energy under Article 4 Section 1 of the Polish Energy Law Act – chosen issues. internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation), 2(6), 21-29. Retrieved from https://press.wz.uw.edu.pl/ikar/vol2/iss6/2
First Page
21
Last Page
29
Page Count
8
Publisher
University of Warsaw
