2010 EPRG annual conference (Berlin)

European policy targets

• David Newbery (EPRG) – European Policy Targets
• Angus Johnston (Law Faculty and EPRG, University of Cambridge) – How Binding Are the EU’s ‘Binding’ Renewables Targets?

Market transparency / distribution business models

• Matthias Kurth (Bundesnetzagentur) – Regulating Power Markets: Challenges Ahead and Initiatives Towards More Transparency of Power Trading
• Petter Allison (British Gas) – Impacts of Decarbonisation and New Technology on UK Energy Supplier / Distributor Relationship

Lunch speaker

Christian Buchel (EnBW) – Future Challenges of Energy Markets and Energy Systems

Wholesale market design

• Ben Hobbs (Johns Hopkins and EPRG) – Capacity Markets: Principles and What’s Happening in the US
• Carlos Vazquez (Gas Natural-Union Fenosa) – Capacity Remuneration in Europe: New Needs in the Context of the New Renewable Policy

Promoting competition

• Andreas Mundt (Bundeskartellamt) – Competition Enforcement in the Generation and Wholesale Markets
• François Lévêque (Ecole des Mines Paris-Tech) – An Ex Ante Economic Assessment of the New French Electricity Law