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
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?”
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)