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Thesis Prize of the Dutch Energy Law Association awarded to Dinand Drankier

11 December 2017

At a meeting of the Dutch Energy Law Association (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Energierecht) at the Benelux secretariat in Brussels on 24 November 2017, Dinand Drankier was presented with the Dutch Energy Law Association’s bi-annual thesis price.

Never thesis prize
Dinand Drankier (l) and Annelies Huygen (TNO, juror)

Drankier, who is now appointed at the Groningen Centre of Energy Law as a researcher, wrote his Master thesis Bridging the Acceptance and Finance Gap in Wind Energy Development: Crowdfunding as the Panacea? as a part of the Groningen LLM programme in Energy and Climate Law. In his thesis, he explores the legal opportunities and barriers for using crowdfunding as an instrument of participation and an instrument of finance in the development of wind energy projects.

The jury considered the winning thesis as an intellectual adventure, in which the author takes the reader on a quest into the unknown. Drankier was praised for the creativity and innovative content of his thesis, as well as for his clear and concise writing style. After the award, Dinand Drankier presented his thesis to the members of the Dutch Energy Law Association and discussed with them the future of crowdfunding in the energy transition.

An abbreviated version of the thesis will be published early 2018 in the Dutch Journal of Energy Law (Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Energierecht).


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