2024 EPRG Spring Seminar

16 May 2024

18:00 -21:00

17 May 2024

08:30 -16:00

Times are shown in local time.

Open to: By invitation only

Robinson College

Grange Rd

Cambridge

CB3 9AN

United Kingdom

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Towards a clean resilient European energy system

EPRG is pleased to announce our successful 2023 Spring Seminar in partnership with Compass Lexecon. On 16 May 2024, EPRG hosted delegates to a dinner at Westminster College, and on 17 May 2024 at Robinson College for a full-day seminar. The first day concluded with a keynote speech given by Shaun Fitzgerald (Cambridge Zero), “No 1.5C without intervention – can we freeze the Arctic?”

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Programme

17 May 2024

Welcome

Robert Ritz (EPRG) and Fabien Roques (Compass Lexecon)

Session 1: Electricity market design

Chaired by Robert Ritz (EPRG)

• Peter Cramton (University of Maryland) – Electricity
• Jason Mann (FTI Consulting) – Locational Pricing: The REMA Debate So Far and a Way Forward
• Rachel Fletcher (Octopus Energy)

Session 2: Roundtable: European energy and climate change

Chaired by Dermot Nolan (EPRG)

• Fabien Roques (Compass Lexecon) – Redesigning Electricity Markets to Deliver EU Policy Objectives
• Michael Pollitt (EPRG) – EU Energy Policy: Lessons from the 2021-23 Energy Crisis
• Miguel Gil Tertre (European Commission, DG Ener) – European Energy and Climate Change
• Theresa Chambers (UK Department for Energy Security & Net Zero) – European Energy and Climate Change

Session 3: Hydrogen and supergrid infrastructure

Chaired by David Reiner (EPRG)

• Arthur Downing (Octopus Energy) – SuperGrid and Hydrogen Infrastructure
• Martina Lindovska (FTI Consulting) – Offshore Transmission Expansion in the North Sea: Towards Solving a Market Failure
• Svetlana Ikonnikova (Technical University Munich) – From H2 Demand to Consumption: The Insights from Refinery Industry Analysis

Session 4: Networks of the future

Chaired by Michael Pollitt (EPRG)

• Akshay Kaul (Ofgem)
• Joe Perkins (Compass Lexecon) – The Future of Network Investment
• Sotiris Georgiopoulos (UK Power Networks)

Concluding words

David Newbery (EPRG)