2022 EPRG Winter Seminar

Energy Policy at a Time of Crisis

EPRG is pleased to announce our successful 2022 Winter Seminar. On 8 December 2022, EPRG hosted delegates to a dinner at Sidney Sussex College, and on 9 December 2022, at Homerton College for a full-day seminar. The first day concluded with a keynote speech given by Cass Sunstein (Harvard University and Harvard Law School), “Bounded rationality and the social cost of carbon”.

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Programme

8 December 2022

Keynote speaker

Cass Sunstein (Harvard University and Harvard Law School) – Bounded Rationality and the Social Cost of Carbon

9 December 2022

Session 1: Electricity crisis: international perspectives

Chaired by David Newbery (EPRG)

• Chloé Le Coq (University Paris-Pantheon-Assas and Stockholm School of Economics (SITE)) – The EU’s Electricity Crisis: Is ”Greening” Feasible Now?
• Paul Simshauser (Griffith University and EPRG Associate) – Australia’s National Electricity Market

Session 2: The future of carbon markets

Chaired by Robert Ritz (EPRG)

• Sam Reed (BEIS)
• S. Keshav (Cambridge Centre for Carbon Credits) – Cambridge Centre for Carbon Credits:
  Bringing Scale and Trust to Carbon Credits

Session 3: Panel discussion: UK energy policy challenges

Chaired by David Reiner (EPRG)

• Alice Barrs (RWE) – UK Energy Policy Challenges
• Gavin Knott (Ofgem) – UK Energy Policy Challenges
• Katherine Marshall (SSE) – UK Energy Policy Challenges
• Michael Pollitt (EPRG) – UK Energy Policy in Time of War

Session 4: The future of gas in Europe

Chaired by Michael Pollitt (EPRG)

• David Cairns (Equinor) – The Future of Gas in Europe: Global Macroeconomic and Energy Market Out
• Karsten Neuhoff (DIW Berlin and EPRG Associate) – EU Gas Market Reforms to Respond to the Crisis
• Svetlana Ikonnikova (Technical University Munich) – The Future of Natural Gas in Europe

Concluding word

David Newbery (EPRG)