2013 EPRG Winter Seminar

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Climate Change Policy Confronts International Markets

EPRG is pleased to announce our successful 2013 Winter Seminar with NERA Economic Consulting. EPRG and NERA hosted delegates to a dinner at Christ’s College on 12 December followed by a full-day seminar at Memorial Court, Clare College.

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Programme

12 December 2013

Keynote speaker

Sir EA (Tony) Wrigley (University of Cambridge) – Energy and the Industrial Revolution: Opening Pandora’s Box

13 December 2013

Session 1: Auctions in energy policy

Chaired by David Newbery (EPRG)

• Michael Pollitt and Thomas Greve (EPRG) – Designing Electricity Transmission Auctions: Applications to UK Round 3 Offshore Wind Projects
• Jonathan Falk (NERA) – Some MW Are More Equal than Others: Lessons from US Capacity Markets

Session 2: Economic impact of renewable policies

Chaired by Richard Druce (NERA)

• Karsten Neuhoff (DIW) – Distributional Effects of Energy Transition: Impacts of Renewable Electricity Support in Germany
• Mauricio Bermúdez Neubauer (NERA) – Policy Uncertainty and Cost of Capital for Offshore Wind

Session 3: Trends in global gas markets

Chaired by David Reiner (EPRG)

• Robert Ritz (EPRG) Market Power in Global LNG
• Paul Bernstein (NERA) The Future of Global LNG Markets

Panel session: Decarbonisation and security of supply: incompatible ambitions?

Chaired by George Anstey (NERA)

• Bernie Bulkin (Head of Office for Renewable Deployment, DECC)
• David Newbery (EPRG)
• David Love (Head of Regulation, Drax)
• Ravi Baga (Head of Energy Policy, EDF Energy)

Photos from the event