Chair of Information Engineering and Head of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong Email: [email protected] Research Interests: Core technologies and applications of Information Technologies; clean energy and environment; smart grid; big data; social networks; wireless networks; optimization techniques For more information please click here Continue Reading
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Jacqueline Chi Kei Lam
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Hong Kong Email: [email protected]; [email protected] Supervisor: Michael Pollitt Research Topic: Air Pollution Policies in UK and China; Air Pollution Monitoring and Citizen Empowerment, Smart Energy Management and Empowerment Research Interests: Her original research focussed on the design and implementation of environmental technology innovation policies… Continue Reading
Jacint Balaguer
Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, University Jaume I, Spain Supervisor: Robert Ritz Research Interests: CO2 emissions; economic growth; pricing behaviour; cost pass-through and competition in energy markets Continue Reading
Presentation ” Strategic investment, multimarket interaction and competitive advantage: An application to the natural gas industry” by R. Ritz
Robert Ritz gave a presentation ” Strategic investment, multimarket interaction and competitive advantage: An application to the natural gas industry” during the Seminar in Energy Economics, at Ecole des Mines & Paris Dauphine, France, on 13 April 2016 | PDF Continue Reading
Kim Schumacher
PhD Candidate, Environmental Science, University of Tokyo, Japan Supervisor: David Reiner Research Interests: Renewable Energy Project Development, Environmental and Energy Policy, Energy-related Environmental Regulatory Procedures, Environmental Impact Assessment, Land-Use Legal Frameworks, Grid Infrastructure, Storage Solutions and Innovation, Wind Power, Geothermal Power Continue Reading
Professor Sir David MacKay (22 April 1967 – 14 April 2016)
We were saddened by the death of our colleague and associate Sir David MacKay, Regius Professor of Engineering at Cambridge, DECC’s former Chief Scientific Advisor, on 14 April 2016 at the age of 48. The Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Amber Rudd, posted that “David was the model of a scientist in… Continue Reading
Article “What is needed for battery electric vehicles to become socially cost competitive?” by D. Newbery and G. Strbac
The article “What is needed for battery electric vehicles to become socially cost competitive?” by David Newbery and Goran Strbac was published on ScienceDirect website on 6 April 2016. To read the article in PDF, please click here. To access the online version (available till 26 May 2016), please click here Continue Reading
Comment on Future of Nuclear Industry, House of Commons Select Committee, by S. Taylor
Simon Taylor, Director of the Master of Finance Programme, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and EPRG Associate Researcher, was invited to the House of Commons Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change to give evidence on the future of the Nuclear Power and Hinkley Project industry on 23 March, 2016. To listen to the recording, please… Continue Reading
Richard McMahon
Professor of Power Electronics, WMG, University of Warwick MA, PhD, CEng, FIET, MInstP Tel: + 44 (0) 2476 528691 Email: [email protected] Research Interests: The electrical technology underpinning the move to a more electric future, especially power electronics and electrical machines. Applications include drive trains for hybrid and full electric vehicles (passenger cars and buses),… Continue Reading
Article “Hinkley Point is a costly mistake, but only France can pull the plug” by S. Taylor
Simon Taylor, Director of the Master of Finance Programme, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and EPRG Associate Researcher, published an article “Hinkley Point is a costly mistake, but only France can pull the plug” in The Guardian on 14 March 2016. “Vincent de Rivaz, chief executive of EDF Energy, once boasted that British customers would… Continue Reading
EPRG Working Paper 1612
Alberto Behar and Robert A. Ritz OPEC vs US shale oil: Analyzing the shift to a market-share strategy Continue Reading
EPRG Working Paper 1611
Musiliu O. Oseni and Michael G. Pollitt The prospects for smart energy prices: observations from 50 years of residential pricing for fixed line telecoms and electricity Continue Reading
EPRG Working Paper 1610
Robert A. Ritz How does renewables competition affect forward contracting in electricity markets? Continue Reading
EPRG Working Paper 1609
Karsten Neuhoff, Nolan Ritter, Aymen Salah-Abou-El-Enien and Philippe Vassilopoulos Intraday Markets for Power: Discretizing the Continuous Trading? Continue Reading
Christian Growitsch
Institute Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems Email: [email protected] Tel: +49 0341 / 231039 500 Research Interests: Energy Economics and Regulatory Economics Biography: PD Dr. Christian Growitsch took on his position as institute director of the Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy IMW in Leipzig in May 2021. Since January… Continue Reading
Monica Giulietti
Professor of Microeconomics, School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0) 1509-223131 Research interests: wholesale and retail energy markets, energy consumer behaviour, energy storage, industrial organisation, applied econometrics. Biography: Monica Giulietti is Professor of Microeconomics at the School of Business and Economics, University of Loughborough, a member of the EMR panel… Continue Reading
Jorge Viñuales
Director of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), Director of the MPhil in Environmental Policy, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge E-mail: [email protected] Tel: + 44 (0)1223-337125 Research Interests: Public International Law, Environmental Law (International, European and Comparative Perspectives) International Energy Law and Policy Climate Change Law and Policy International… Continue Reading
Book “The Fall and Rise of Nuclear Power in Britain” by S. Taylor
Simon Taylor, Director of the Master of Finance Programme, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and EPRG Associate Researcher, published his new book “The Fall and Rise of Nuclear Power in Britain”. The book is now available here. The review of the book in the latest Nature Energy by Prof Gordon Mackerron can be read… Continue Reading
Report “Delivering future-proof energy infrastructure” by M. Pollitt
The report “Delivering future-proof energy infrastructure” written by Goran Strobac, Ioannis Konstantelos, Michael Pollitt and Richard Green for the National Infrastructure Commission was mentioned in BBC Business News in the article Smart energy could save £8bn a year, say advisers by Roger Harrabin on 4 March 2016. To read the article, please click here To read the… Continue Reading
EPRG Working Paper 1608
Michael Pollitt A Global Carbon Market? Continue Reading
Executive Summary of Climate Change and Energy After Paris Conference, 22 January 2016, Cambridge
The Executive Summary of the Conference What Now? Climate Change and Energy After Paris that took place in Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, on 22 January 2016. The full text of the Summary can be found here. Continue Reading
S. Taylor quoted in “What’s the (Hinkley) Point?”, The Economist, 27 February 2016
The new book ” The Fall and Rise of Nuclear Power in Britain” by Simon Taylor was featured in the article What’s the (Hinkley) Point? published in The Economist on 27 February 2016. To read the article, please click here Continue Reading
Tiago Cavalcanti
University Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge E-mail: [email protected] Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Economic Development, Monetary Economics, and Applied Econometrics Biography: Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research expertise is Macroeconomics, Economic Growth and Development. His research has appeared in leading academic journals, such as the Journal of Monetary… Continue Reading
EPRG Working Paper 1607
David Newbery Policies for decarbonizing a liberalized power sector Continue Reading
EPRG Working Paper 1606
Olaf Corry and David Reiner It’s the Society, Stupid! Communicating Emergent Climate Technologies in the Internet Age Continue Reading
EPRG Working Paper 1605
Janusz Brzeszczyński, Binam Ghimire, Tooraj Jamasb, and Graham McIntosh Socially Responsible Investment and Market Performance: The Case of Energy and Resource Firms Continue Reading
Stephen Littlechild’s latest contribution to CMA’s current Energy market investigation
Stephen Littlechild’s latest contribution to CMA’s current Energy market investigation “The CMA energy market investigation, the well-functioning market, Ofgem, Government and behavioural economics“. This paper is forthcoming in the European Competition Journal, March 2016. Executive Summary | Text Continue Reading
EPRG Working Paper 1604
Kamiar Mohaddes and Mehdi Raissi The U.S. Oil Supply Revolution and the Global Economy Continue Reading
EPRG Working Paper 1603
Arjun Mahalingam and David Reiner Energy Subsidies at Times of Economic Crisis: A Comparative Study and Scenario Analysis of Italy and Spain Continue Reading
Ilkka Hannula
Senior Energy Analyst at the IEA, Paris, France Email: [email protected] Research Interests: low-carbon fuels, system integration of renewables, electrification of industrial processes, and negative emissions technologies Biography: Dr Hannula is a Senior Energy Analyst at the IEA where he is leading the Agency’s analytical work on renewable energy technologies and assessing the role of renewables… Continue Reading
K. Mohaddes quoted in “Pouring Oil on Troubled Stock Markets”, Financial Times, 27 January 2016
Kamiar Mohaddes was quoted in an article “Pouring Oil on Troubled Stock Markets“, published by David Sheppard and Neil Hume in Financial Times on 27 January 2016. “People are seeing the impact of a massive oversupply of oil in the price and perceiving it as coming from the demand side, ” – K. Mohaddes The full… Continue Reading
Comment on Effect of El Niño on CCTV by K. Mohaddes
Kamiar Mohaddes, EPRG Associate Researcher, was invited as a panelist on the programme The Heat: El Niño and its Global Effects broadcast on 21 January 2016 on CCTV America. To view the programme, please click here Continue Reading
EPRG Working Paper 1602
Chi Kong Chyong and Roman Kazmin The Economics of Global LNG Trade: The Case of Atlantic and Pacific Inter-Basin Arbitrage in 2010-2014 Continue Reading
EPRG Working Paper 1601
David Newbery The long-Run Equilibrium Impact of Intermittent Renewables on Wholesale Electricity Prices Continue Reading
Anette Boom
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Supervisor: David Newbery Research Interests: Industrial Economics/Organization, Applied Microeconomic Theory, Regulations, Electricity Markets, Asymmetric Information in Markets More information and publications can be found here Continue Reading
Juha Teirila
Doctoral Student in Economics, Oulu Business School, Finland Supervisor: Robert Ritz Research Interest: Electricity market modelling, capacity markets, power plant flexibility, subsidies for renewable energy, economics of electricity storages Continue Reading
David MacKay Received Knighthood for His Work in Energy and Climate Change
David MacKay, Regius Professor of Engineering, Cambridge University Engineering Department, lately Chief Scientific Advisor at DECC, and EPRG Associate Researcher, has been awarded a Knighthood in the 2016 New Year Honours List for “services to Scientific Advice in Government and Science Outreach”. Congratulations to Professor MacKay! We at EPRG are very proud to count him as one of… Continue Reading
Comment on effects of El Niño on BBC by K. Mohaddes
Kamiar Mohaddes, EPRG Associate Researcher, was interviewed by BBC World Service on 30 December 2015. The interview covered Dr. Mohaddes’s recent research on El Niño and its economic effects around the world. The interview can be found here (5:36 min onwards) Continue Reading
EPRG Working Paper 1525
Thomas Triebs and Michael Pollitt The Direct Costs and Benefits of US Electric Utility Divestitures Abstract | Non-Technical Summary | PDF Note: This Working Paper replaces EPRG WP#1024 Continue Reading
EPRG Working Paper 1524
Chi Kong Chyong Markets and long-term contracts: The case of Russian gas supplies to Europe Continue Reading
EPRG Working Paper 1523
Pär Holmberg and Frank Wolak Electricity markets: Designing auctions where suppliers have uncertain costs Continue Reading
2015 EPRG Winter Seminar
EPRG is pleased to announce our successful 2015 Winter Seminar in partnership with NERA. On December 10, 2015 EPRG hosted delegates to a dinner at Christ’s College, and on December 11, 2015 at Clare College for a full-day seminar. Continue Reading
EPRG Working Paper 1522
David Newbery and Thomas Greve The robustness of industrial commodity oligopoly pricing strategies Continue Reading
EPRG Working Paper 1521
Edward Anderson and Pär Holmberg Price Instability in Multi-Unit Auctions Continue Reading
Article “Don’t Blame the Abundance of Oil” by K. Mohaddes
Kamiar Mohaddes, Lecturer and Fellow in Economics, Girton College, University of Cambridge, and EPRG Associate Researcher, wrote a blog “Don’t Blame the Abundance of Oil” that was published in Huffington Post on 25 November 2015. The full text can be found here Continue Reading
EPRG Working Paper 1520
Michael Pollitt In Search of ‘Good’ Energy Policy: The Social Limits to Technological Solutions to Energy and Climate Problems Continue Reading
Felix Grey
William Cook Fellow in Economics, Corpus Christi College and Research Fellow, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge Email: [email protected] Research interests: the political economy of environmental regulation; corporate lobbying over carbon pricing; industrial organisation and carbon pricing; social learning and environmental protection; economic history. Biography: Felix Grey is the William Cook Fellow in Economics at… Continue Reading
Comment “Response to CMA on Supplemental Remedies” by S. Littlechild
Stephen Littlechild and the other former energy regulators recently submitted their response to CMA on Supplemental Remedies. In their response they argue that prohibiting Standard Variable Tariffs would overrule customer preferences. It would be better to promote more competition for SVTs. They also propose an alternative way forward, to recognise that the extent of Ofgem’s… Continue Reading
Comment on effects of El Niño on CCTV America by K. Mohaddes
Kamiar Mohaddes, EPRG Associate Researcher, was interviewed by CCTV America News Channel on El Niño’s weather related impact on world business. His research on the topic was also mentioned in The Economist. To view the interview, please click here. To read the article, please click here. Continue Reading
Geoffroy Dolphin
Post Doctoral Fellow, Resources for the Future E-mail: [email protected] Research interests: energy policy, environmental economics, political economy Biography: Geoffroy received his Ph.D. in business economics from the University of Cambridge. He is now Post Doctoral Fellow at Resources For the Future. Geoffroy’s research interests span political economy, energy & environmental economics and climate policy. His… Continue Reading