2015 EPRG Spring Seminar

Toward a Better Energy Policy: Key Issues for the New UK Government and the New European Energy Union

EPRG is pleased to announce our successful 2015 Spring Seminar in partnership with FTI Consulting and Compass Lexecon. On 4 June 2015 EPRG hosted delegates to a dinner at Newnham College, and on 5 June 2015 at the Møller Centre for a full-day seminar.

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Programme

4 June 2015

Keynote speaker

Laszlo Varro, Head of Gas, Coal and Electricity Markets (IEA) – Do We Have to Go Back to the Planned Economy to Decarbonise Electricity?

5 June 2015

Session 1: EU Energy Union – which way forward for the electricity target model?

Chaired by Boaz Moselle (FTI-CL Energy)

• David Newbery (EPRG) – What Future(s) for Liberalised Electricity Markets?
• Fabien Roques (FTI-CL Energy) – Rethinking Power Markets for Decarbonisation: Toward the EU Target Model 2.0

Session 2: Energy retail market competition in Great Britain: status and prospects

Chaired by David Reiner (EPRG)

• Stephen Littlechild (EPRG)
• Chris Harris (RWE)
• Rachel Fletcher (OFGEM)
• Alaric Marsden (FTI-CL Energy)
• Guy Madgwick (ENECO)

Session 3: UK capacity market – lessons from the first capacity auction and issues for cross border participation

Chaired by Michael Pollitt (EPRG)

• Yiran Du and Robert Ritz (EPRG) – Analysis of Strategic Bidding Behaviours and Design of the UK Capacity Market                
• Jason Mann (FTI-CL Energy) – Key Issues for Interconnection Participation in Capacity Markets

Session 4: New trends to support infrastructure investment

Chaired by Fabien Roques (FTI-CL Energy)

• Anthony Legg (FTI-CL Energy) – The Future of Transmission Regulation
• Peter Levi and Michael Pollitt (EPRG) – Cost Projections and Investment in Electricity Generation Infrastructure in the UK: A Study of Cost Uncertainty