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2022 EPRG Winter Seminar

EPRG is pleased to announce our successful 2022 Winter Seminar. On December 8, 2022, EPRG hosted delegates to a dinner at Sidney Sussex College, and on December 9, 2022, at Homerton College for a full-day seminar. The first day concluded with a keynote speech given by Cass Sunstein (Harvard University & Harvard Law School).

PROGRAMME

EPRG 2022 Winter Seminar, 8-9 December 2022
Energy policy at a time of crisis

9 December 2022

SESSION 1––ELECTRICITY CRISIS: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
Chair: David Newbery (EPRG)


Chloé Le Coq (University Paris-Pantheon-Assas & Stockholm School of Economics
(SITE)) – The EU’s electricity crisis:Is “greening” feasible now?

Paul Simshauser (Griffith University & EPRG Associate) – Australia’s National Electricity Market

SESSION 2––THE FUTURE OF CARBON MARKETS
Chair: Robert Ritz (EPRG)
Sam Reed (BEIS)
S. Keshav (Cambridge Centre for Carbon Credits) – Cambridge Centre for Carbon Credits:
Bringing Scale and Trust to Carbon Credits

SESSION 3—PANEL DISCUSSION: UK ENERGY POLICY CHALLENGES
Chair: David Reiner (EPRG)
Alice Barrs (RWE) – UK Energy Policy Challenges
Gavin Knott (Ofgem) – UK Energy Policy Challenges
Katherine Marshall (SSE) – UK Energy Policy Challenges
Michael Pollitt (EPRG) – UK Energy Policy in Time of War

SESSION 4—THE FUTURE OF GAS IN EUROPE
Chair: Michael Pollitt (EPRG)
David Cairns (Equinor) – The Future of Gas in Europe – Global macroeconomic and energy market out
Karsten Neuhoff (DIW Berlin & EPRG Associate) – EU gas market reforms to respond to the crisis
Svetlana Ikonnikova (Technical University Munich) – The Future of Natural Gas in Europe

Concluding word – David Newbery (EPRG)

CEEPR & EPRG European Energy Policy Conference
Brussels, 1-2 September 2022

EPRG is pleased to announce our successful 2022 EPRG & CEEPR European Energy Policy Conference. This year the conference was held in strategic partnership with EDF. It took place at Sparks Building, Rue Ravenstein 60, in Brussels, Belgium, on 1 – 2 September 2022 and comprised of 1,5 day of sessions and dinner. PROGRAMME Thursday 1 September Welcome and Announcements Christopher R. Knittel… Continue Reading

EPRG is pleased to announce our successful 2022 EPRG & CEEPR International Energy Policy Conference “Strategies for 2050 Carbon Neutrality in East Asia” Seoul, 2022

PROGRAMME Monday, 27 June 2022 Welcome and AnnouncementsChristopher R. Knittel (MIT)Michael Pollitt (EPRG)Yong Tae Yoon (SNU) KEYNOTE SPEECHPresident & CEO Seung-Il Cheong (KEPCO) KEYNOTE SPEECHCEO & Chairman Dong Hee Jung (KPX) NET-ZERO SCENARIOS OF MAJOR COUNTRIESChaired by David Reiner (EPRG) Kamiar Mohaddes (EPRG) (virtually)Sergey Paltsev (MIT)Jiyong Eom (KAIST) RESTRUCTURING AND REGULATING THE POWER INDUSTRY FOR… Continue Reading

Visiting EPRG

Potential Visitors to the Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG)  Instructions for Student initiated ‐ Student visitors We welcome a small number of high quality PhD students to the EPRG. There are a number of criteria for a potential visiting student and we will not normally consider any student who does not meet all of these criteria. For… Continue Reading