Hidden in plain sight: a study of the appellate tribunal for electricity in India's energy transition and legal imagination

Thesis

The Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (‘APTEL’) is a statutory adjudicative institution tasked with responding to appeals against orders taken by the central and state electricity regulatory commissions in India. As such, it is uniquely positioned in the legal landscape of India’s ongoing transition to renewable energy to both stabilize legal, administrative and regulatory disruption caused by this process, and substantively develop the law. Despite its central and indispensable role in t...

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Authors: Jannu, N

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: Electricity; Renewable Energy; India; Climate Change; Tribunals; Legal Reasoning; Legal Imagination; Energy Transition
• Subjects: Public Law; Environmental Law; Administrative Law