2022 EPRG Spring Seminar

Fit for Net Zero: Energy Policy and Regulation

EPRG is pleased to announce our successful 2022 Spring Seminar in partnership with Compass Lexecon. On 5 May 2022, EPRG hosted delegates to a dinner at Downing College, and on 6 May 2022, at Robinson College for a full-day seminar. The first day concluded with a keynote speech given by Simon Taylor (Management Practice Professor of Finance, Cambridge Judge Business School).

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Programme

5 May 2022

Keynote speaker

Simon Taylor (Management Practice Professor of Finance, Cambridge Judge Business School)

6 May 2022

Session 1: Energy markets and security

Chaired by David Newbery (EPRG)

• Fabien Roques (Compass Lexecon) – Policy Responses to the Energy Crisis
• Kong Chyong (EPRG) – Quo Vadis Russian Gas?

Session 2: Electricity pricing

Chaired by Robert Ritz (EPRG)

• David Newbery (EPRG) – The Long- and Short-run Role for Locational Marginal Prices for Renewable Electricity
• Jason Mann (FTI) – Approach to Evaluating the Benefits to GB Customers of Locational Marginal Pricing and Some Initial Estimates
• Mathilde Fajardy (EPRG) – The Value of Lost Load for British Households in a Decarbonised Power Sector

Session 3: Panel discussion on retail markets

Chaired by David Reiner (EPRG)

• Joe Perkins (Compass Lexecon)
• Maureen Paul (Ofgem)
• Rachel Fletcher (Octopus Energy)
• Stephen Littlechild (EPRG) – Discovery, Doubt, Delusion, Ducking, Destruction, Desperation, Diagnosis, Discipline, Disregarding, Direction and Decease? Regulation and the Evolution of the GB Competitive Retail Energy Market

Session 4: The future of network regulation

Chaired by Michael Pollitt (EPRG)

• Charles Verhaeghe (Compass Lexecon) – Using Flexibility to Optimise Networks
• James Hope (UK Power Networks) – Adapting Electricity Distribution Regulation for Net Zero

Concluding words

David Newbery (EPRG) and Fabien Roques (Compass Lexecon)