David Newbery gave a presentation “European Clean Energy Policy for the Electricity Sector” at the 12th AEEE Conference in Salamanca University, Spain, on 2 February 2017 | PDF Continue Reading
David Newbery gave a presentation “European Clean Energy Policy for the Electricity Sector” at the 12th AEEE Conference in Salamanca University, Spain, on 2 February 2017 | PDF Continue Reading
Stephen Littlechild and other former energy regulators submitted written evidence to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee in response to the inquiry that is investigating the economics of UK Energy Policy. The full text can be found here. Further details of the Committee’s inquiry can be found here. Continue Reading
Former General Director of Petroleum National Agency (ANP), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Supervisor: Robert Ritz Research Interests: Petroleum industry regulation in the transition period from high to low oil prices Continue Reading
Michael Pollitt The Economic Consequences of Brexit: Energy Continue Reading
Master’s Student of Science, Energy Policy & Climate, Johns Hopkins University, USA Supervisor: Michael Pollitt and Karim Anaya Research Interests: Energy storage, Distributed Energy Resources, Solar PV, Electric Vehicles, Energy Access, Energy Security Continue Reading
Matti Liski and Iivo Vehviläinen Gone with the wind: an empirical analysis of the renewable energy rent transfer Continue Reading
Gabriel Chan and Laura Diaz Anadon Improving Decision Making for Public R&D Investment in Energy: Utilizing Expert Elicitation in Parametric Models Abstract | Non-Technical Summary | PDF Continue Reading
EPRG is pleased to announce our successful 2016 Winter Seminar in partnership with NERA. On December 8, 2016 EPRG hosted delegates to a dinner at Newnham College, and on December 9, 2016 at Clare College for a full-day seminar. Programme SESSION 1 – THE ROLE OF CENTRAL PLANNING AND PROCUREMENT IN EFFICIENT ENERGY SYSTEMS Chair: George Anstey (NERA) Juha Teirilä… Continue Reading
Kamiar Mohaddes, EPRG Associate Researcher, published a policy brief “The US Shale Oil Revolution Requires Major Reforms in the Macroeconomic Policy Frameworks and Institutions in the MENA Region” at the Economic Research Forum. The brief is available online Continue Reading
Luis Orea, Inmaculada C. Álvarez, and Tooraj Jamasb Using a spatial econometric approach to mitigate omitted variables in stochastic frontier models: An application to Norwegian electricity distribution networks Continue Reading
Thomas Greve and Michael Pollitt A Future Auction Mechanism for Distributed Generation Continue Reading
Chi-Kong Chyong gave a presentation “Some Economics of Natural Gas Storage in North West Europe” at the AIEE Energy Symposium on Current and Future Challenges to Energy Security, on 1 December 2016 in Milan, Italy | PDF Continue Reading
Ana Rodríguez-Álvarez, Luis Orea and Tooraj Jamasb Fuel Poverty and Well-Being: A Consumer Theory and Stochastic Frontier Approach Continue Reading
Robert Ritz gave a presentation “OPEC vs US shale: Analyzing the shift to a market-share strategy” at Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich Economies (OxCarre) on 15 November 2016 | PDF Continue Reading
Professor of Climate Change Policy, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge E-mail: [email protected] Research Interests: Energy and climate policy; innovation and science policy; technological change; R&D institutions and management; decision making under uncertainty; water-energy-food nexus; policy and integrated analysis; sustainable development Biography: Professor Laura Diaz Anadon holds the chaired Professorship of Climate Change Policy at the University of… Continue Reading
David Reiner together with Jorge Vinuales, Joanna Depledge and Emma Lees published a guest edited issue of Climate Policy journal (vol 17, #1) ‘Climate Policy After the Paris 2015 Climate Conference’ on 7 November 2016. The article covers the prospects of the Paris Agreement of the Climate Policy that follows from the Post-Paris Conference held in Cambridge… Continue Reading
Simon Taylor, EPRG Associate Researcher, was interviewed for BBC Radio 4 programme Costing the Earth on Nuclear Futures. The programme was broadcast on 1 & 2 November 2016 and covered the subject of extending the lives of the UK’s older nuclear power stations. To listen to the interview, please click here Continue Reading
G. Dolphin, M. Pollitt, and D. Newbery The Political Economy of Carbon Pricing: a Panel Analysis Continue Reading
Head of the Regulation Department, The Regulatory Authority for Electricity Gas and Water, Milan, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Research Interests: electricity and gas market design; regulation of network industries; retail markets. Biography: Clara Poletti is Director of the Regulation Department of AEEGSI, the Italian independent regulatory Authority for electricity, gas and water as of 2011. She was appointed… Continue Reading
Michael Pollitt gave a presentation “Business Models for Future Energy Systems” during BIEE’s 11th Oxford research conference that took place at St John’s College, Oxford on 21-22 September 2016 | PDF Continue Reading
David Newbery A simple introduction to the economics of storage: shifting demand and supply over time and space Continue Reading
Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge E-mail: [email protected] Research interests: Magnetic Resonance, Terahertz applications, catalysis, oil recovery Biography: Lynn Gladden graduated in Chemical Physics from the University of Bristol, UK, before studying for her PhD in Physical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. Following completion of her thesis… Continue Reading
Associate Professor in Energy Economics, School of Applied Economics, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China Email: [email protected]; [email protected] Research interests: Energy investment, Electricity market reform, Climate change economics Background: Hao Chen obtained his Ph.D. degree in Energy Economics from Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEP-BIT), Beijing Institute of Technology in 2018, and is… Continue Reading
Thomas Greve, Charalampos Patsios, Michael G. Pollitt, and Phil Taylor Economic zones for future complex power systems Continue Reading
Visiting Post-Doctoral Researcher, Electric Power Network Economics Laboratory, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Seoul National University, South Korea Supervisor: Michael Pollitt Research Interests: Balancing Service, Renewable Energy Integration, Distribution System Continue Reading
Marta Rocha and Thomas Greve Contracting in a market with differential information Continue Reading
Michael Pollitt Electricity Network Charging for Flexibility Continue Reading
Professor of the Economics of Innovation, University of Warwick E-mail: [email protected] Research Interests: Economics of Innovation, patents & R&D, consumer preferences, industrial organization, statistics and econometrics Biography: Giuliana is a Professor of the Economics of Innovation at Warwick Business School, a Trustee, member of the Council of the Royal Economics Society and a member of… Continue Reading
EPRG held a workshop on “Implications of Brexit for UK and EU Energy and Climate Policy” on 6 September 2016 at Sidney Sussex College. The Workshop comprised of 3 panel discussions sessions and finished with a dinner which included a keynote speaker, Vicky Ford, MEP and Chair of the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection, European… Continue Reading
Michael Pollitt and Wadim Strielkowski submitted public comment Consumer solar distributed generation (DG): net metering and some competition issues to Federal Trade Commission (USA) under FTC initiative on Competition and Consumer Protection Issues in the Rooftop Solar Business, on 22 August 2016. To read the comment please click here Continue Reading
Associate Professor, Université Paris Dauphine, France E-mail: [email protected] Research Interests: Electricity, gas market design; Regulation of network industries; Environmental regulation, carbon market design Biography: Fabien Roques is an Associate Professor at University Paris Dauphine and a Senior Vice President with the economics consultancy Compass Lexecon. His expertise spans European power, gas, and carbon dioxide (CO2)… Continue Reading
Manuel Llorca and Tooral Jamasb Energy Efficiency and Rebound Effect in European Road Freight Transport Continue Reading
Francisco D. Munoz, Adriaan Hendrik van der Weijde, Benjamin F. Hobbs and Jean-Paul Watson Does risk aversion affect transmission and generation planning? A Western North America case study Continue Reading
Rowan Adams and Tooraj Jamasb Optimal Power Generation Portfolios with Renewables: An Application to the UK Continue Reading
Kamiar Mohaddes, EPRG Associate Researcher, published an article “Is cheap oil really good for the global economy?” in Financial Times on 14 July 2016. To read the article, please click here. Continue Reading
Ibrahim Abada and Andreas Ehrenmann The prisoner’s dilemma in Cournot models: when endogenizing the level of competition leads to competitive behaviors Continue Reading
EPRG is pleased to announce our successful 2016 CEEPR/EPRG Annual Conference with support from EDF Energy. The Conference took place in George C. Marshall Centre in Paris, France, on 7 – 8 July and comprised of 1,5 day of sessions and dinner. Continue Reading
Chief Analyst, Center of Expertise in Economic Modelling and Studies, ENGIE, Paris, France E-mail: [email protected] Research Interests: Electricity and gas systems and market design; renewable energy; mathematical modelling; equilibrium problems; long term contracts; risk functions. Biography: Andreas Ehrenmann is Chief Analyst in an internal center for economic expertise modelling and studies at ENGIE. Andreas has… Continue Reading
Kamiar Mohaddes, EPRG Associate Researcher, gave a presentation “Oil Prices and the Global Economy: Is It Different This Time Around?” at the IIEA Conference on Iran’s Economy at Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany on 18 June 2016 | Slides Continue Reading
Lecturer in Environmental History, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge E-mail: [email protected] Research Interests: History of energy use; long-term relations between energy and economic growth; history of energy policy and prediction; energy embodied in trade flows. Background: Paul Warde is a lecturer in environmental history in the History Faculty of the University of Cambridge. He… Continue Reading
Stephen Littlechild and other former energy regulators of the UK submitted a paper to Energy and Climate Change Committee for Committee’s oral hearing on the CMA energy market report that took place on 5 July 2016. The full text can be read here Continue Reading
David Newbery Pricing Electricity and Supporting Renewables in Heavily Energy Subsidized Economies Continue Reading
David Newbery’s latest contribution to DECC “How do we get to an electricity market with government making as few decisions as possible by 2025?”, 10 March 2016. To full text can be found here. Continue Reading
Doctoral Student, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland Supervisor: David Reiner Research Interests: Energy and environmental policy, Barriers to renewable energy development, Geothermal energy, Social acceptability of technology, Financial mechanisms for renewable energy development, Development aid effectiveness Continue Reading
Michael Pollitt gave a presentation “What are the prospects for electrical energy storage (EES)? Lessons from Europe and California” at the International Conference on the Frontier of Advanced Batteries, CIBF2016 and the 6th China International Energy Storage Conference in Shenzhen, China, on 25 May 2016 | PDF Continue Reading
Professor of Economics Emeritus, Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management Emeritus, Dean Emeritus, MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA, USA Email: [email protected] Research Interests: Decarbonizing the electric grid; public policy in the energy sector Biography: Richard Schmalensee is Howard W. Johnson Professor of Economics and Management, Emeritus at MIT. He has served as a… Continue Reading
David Newbery Questioning the EU Target Electricity Model – how should it be adapted to deliver the Trilemma? Also published in Energy Policy under the title “Tales of Two Islands – Lessons for EU Energy Policy from Electricity Market Reforms in Britain and Ireland” and available here Continue Reading
Michael Pollitt gave a presentation “In Search of ‘Good’ Energy Policy: why multi-disciplinary approaches to Energy and Climate problems are so important” at CEEP, Beijing Institute of Technology, China, on 20 May 2016 | PDF Continue Reading
Executive Director, MIT Centre for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR), USA Email: [email protected] Research Interests: Energy and environmental regulation, climate finance, carbon pricing, emissions trading Background: Michael Mehling is Executive Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he facilitates research across MIT on the… Continue Reading
EPRG is pleased to announce our successful 2016 Spring Seminar in partnership with FTI Consulting and Compass Lexecon. On May 12, 2016 EPRG hosted delegates to a dinner at Westminster College, and on May 13, 2016 at the Moller Centre, Churchill College for a full-day seminar. Continue Reading