2012 EPRG Spring Seminar

Energy Prices and Energy Policy

EPRG is pleased to announce our successful 2012 Spring Seminar. On 24 May, EPRG hosted delegates to a dinner at Queens’ College, and on 25 May, to a full-day seminar at Clare College.

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Programme

24 May 2012

Dinner speakers

A Haarscher, A Fargere, J Doblas, M Bruner (Cambridge Judge Business School) – Japan’s Response to Fukushima

25 May 2012

Session 1: Smart meters and electricity markets

Chaired by David Newbery (EPRG)

• Th-O Léauthier (IDEI and Compass Lexecon) – Is Mandating Smart Meters Smart?
• Colin Sausman (Ofgem) – Smart Meters, Regulation and Market Development

Session 2: Consumer behaviour and protection                                  

Chaired by Vicky Pryce (FTI Consulting)

• Philip Brutscher (EPRG) – Why Do People Self-Disconnect?
• Stephen Littlechild (EPRG) – Do Retail Markets Work?

Session 3: Renewables, the ETS and electricity prices                                  

Chaired by David Reiner (EPRG)

• Jaqueline Boucher (GDF Suez) – Considerations about the ETS
• Guido Cervigni (Compass Lexecon) – Renewables and Power Prices

Session 4: European gas markets: a world transformed?                              

Chaired by Boaz Moselle (FTI Consulting / Compass Lexecon)

• Laszlo Varro (IEA, invited) – New Pricing Mechanisms and Contracts
• Frank Amend (RWE) – Gas and Europe’s Green Agenda
• Teddy Kott (EDF Trading) – Europe in Global Gas
• Pierre Noël (EPRG) – Security of Supply and Russia