ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a new topic for scholarship on law, regulation, and temporality: the energy infrastructure. We elaborate on two temporalities of risk that figure in energy governance systems. One is the temporality of anticipation, which entails anticipatory actions for crisis management, designing robust energy systems, stockpiling reserves such as natural gas, and foresight for unwanted events such as electricity supply disruptions. The other temporality, resilience, finds support in the liberalized energy provision and concerns ex facto reactions, such as real-time energy pricing and more or less real-time intraday energy markets, to counter incidents like peak energy demands and intermittent renewable power generation. We analyse the tensions and complementarity of the two temporalities and their figurations in law and regulation via documents mainly from Finland, but supplemented with Scandinavia and the European Union.
