2024 EPRG Winter Seminar
12 Dec 2024
18:00 -21:00
13 Dec 2024
08:30 -16:00
By invitation only
Magdalene College
Magdalene St
Cambridge
CB3 0AG
United Kingdom
The Future of the Global Energy System
EPRG is pleased to announce our successful 2024 Winter Seminar in collaboration with the University of Cambridge and PwC. On 12 December 2024, EPRG hosted delegates to a dinner at Gonville and Caius College, and on 13 December 2024, to a full-day seminar at Magdalene College. The first day concluded with a keynote speech given by Michael Mehling (MIT) ,“US politics and its impact on the future of the energy system”.
Programme
13 December 2024
Welcome
Michael Pollitt (EPRG) and Paul Nillesen (PwC)
Session 1: Global carbon pricing
Chaired by Lucia Reisch (Cambridge Judge)
- Michael Pollitt (EPRG) – Towards a Global Carbon Market
- Darrel Poletyllo (PwC)
- Corne Boot (BP)
Session 2: Panel – The role of the Middle East in decarbonisation
Chaired by Niloufar Molavi (PwC)
- Kamiar Mohaddes (Cambridge Judge)
- Shihab Elborai (PwC)
- Fahad Alajlan (KAPSARC)
- Bruce Smith (EWEC)
Session 3: Electricity networks for net zero
Chaired by Paul Nillesen (PwC)
- Paul Simshauser (Griffith University/Powerlink) – Electricity Networks: Australian Experience
- Frank-Peter Hansen (TenneT) – TenneT’s Target Grid: Ambitions, Strategy and Challenges
Session 4: Panel – European electricity markets: what they teach and what they need to learn
Chaired by Dermot Nolan (Fingleton/University of Cambridge)
- David Newbery (EPRG) – European Electricity Markets: Lessons from Britain
- Paul Dawson (RWE Supply and Trading) – European Electricity Markets
- Christine Brandstätt (Copenhagen Business School) – Learnings for European Electricity Markets
Concluding words
David Newbery (EPRG)