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IL RUOLO DELLE ALTERNATIVE DISPUTES RESOLUTION NEL FRAMEWORK ENERGETICO EUROPEO
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The final frontier of European transitional energy law must be found in the introduction of a balanced and efficient system of climate and energy justice. The stratification, over time, of multiple rules in European Union law, both soft law and hard law, has, on the one hand, ensured legal certainty and regulation of the various aspects of the matter but, on the other hand, risks increasing litigation between the players in this field exponentially. The significant increase in the number of regulations governing the various aspects of the вЂenergy community’ entails the need to raise the level of protection for energy consumers and, consequently, the need to provide adequate remedies to safeguard their rights. Among the factors affecting the need to set up an adequate system of judicial protection is the proliferation of private subjects who, in the new guise of prosumers and prosumagers, enjoy powers that are more incisive in the energy cycle, even though they do not give up their formal consumerist position. One thinks, of the integration into the electricity system of the digital transition, which, alongside the energy transition, risks creating multiple problems in the private lives of users connected to the electricity grid, starting with security from cyber-attacks and ending with the uncontrolled dissemination of personal data, damaging the confidentiality, dignity and identity of the individual. The energy justice system will have to measure itself against these factors and consider the need to flank judicial intervention with extrajudicial intervention, which is quicker, cheaper and entrusted to trained, impartial and equidistant parties. The realisation of the true energy just transition cannot omit to address the issue of safeguarding rights, lest consumerist achievements remain mere statements of principle, lacking adequate protection.
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