Matthew Smith

1 week ago | mondaq.com | Byrne Wallace |Colm Booth |Matthew Smith |Maire O'Neill

On 4 March 2025, the Government granted Minister for Climate,Environment and Energy Darragh O'Brien approval to proceed witha plan to develop a State-led LNG terminal, vitalising Action 17 ofthe "Energy Security in Ireland to 2030″ Report (theReport) which was published in November 2023 andtargeted the development of a State-led strategic gas reserve. Ireland is one of 5 EU member states without domestic gasstorage (the Southwest Kinsale storage reservoir having ceasedoperation in 2017).

2 months ago | mondaq.com | Matthew Smith |Colm Booth |Maire O'Neill |Ciarán Herlihy

In November 2024, the High Court set out its substantivedecision in the 'GR Wind Farms' case regardingIreland's rules on the dispatching of electricity generationand demand response, as set out in a Single Electricity MarketCommittee (SEMC) Decision (theDecision), in the context of Article 12 andArticle 13 of EU Regulation 2019/943 (theRegulation). We previously covered the backgroundto that judgment and some of the key relevant concepts here.

Aug 21, 2024 | justsecurity.org | Janet Lord |Pace Schwarz |Matthew Smith |Michael Stein |Alex Green |Rosemary Kayess

Although the prohibition of the slave trade is one of the oldest peremptory norms of international law, its absence from the Rome Statute – the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC) – created a gap in international law that has yet to be filled. While the ICC’s framework accounts for the crime of enslavement, it neglects the legally distinct, but related, crime of the slave trade (i.e., criminalizing the intent to initiate or maintain a person’s enslavement).

Jul 16, 2024 | splc.org | Matthew Smith

The Student Press Law Center asked New Voices advocates to reflect on their accomplishments and lessons learned during the 2024 legislative season. Other posts in this series can be found here. Matthew Smith is president of the Wisconsin Journalism Education Association and adviser for the Cardinal Columns at Fond du Lac High School. He has long advocated for student press rights and New Voices in Wisconsin.

Dec 6, 2023 | mondaq.com | Colm Booth |Matthew Smith |Fergus Devine |Maire O'Neill

ECP-2 is the CRU's current pathway for onshore generators, storage, and other system services technology projects to connect to the Irish electricity system. Background Bilateral grid connection agreements between EirGrid as Transmission System Operator (TSO) and ESB Networks as Distribution System Operator (DSO) respectively and generators or demand users apportion scarce grid connection capacity to those entities.