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EPRG Workshop on Distributed Generation and Smart Connections, 6 June, 2014
EPRG Workshop on Distributed Generation and Smart Connections in partnership with UK Power Networks June 6 2014 The EPRG and UK Power Networks, our project partner in the Flexible Plug and Play (FPP) project, held a successful Workshop on Distributed Generation and Smart Connections at Memorial Court, Clare College, Cambridge, on the 6th of June… Continue Reading
Presentation “Subsidies in the UK Electricity Sector until 2020” by D. Newbery
David Newbery presented “Subsidies in the UK Electricity Sector until 2020“ in Cambridge, 7th February 2014 | PDF Continue Reading
Contracting with Government for low carbon technologies: Designing the Visible Hand
David Newbery Contracting with Government for low carbon technologies: Designing the Visible Hand Long-term contracting in electricity markets, University Paris-Dauphine, 18th December 2013 | PDF Continue Reading
Presenation “CERRE Regulation Dossier Energy & electricity” by D. Newbery
David Newbery presented CERRE Regulation Dossier Energy & electricity at a kick-off meeting for EC 2014-18, Brussels, 22 January 2014 | PDF Continue Reading
Presentation “Progress on market reform: EMR, the I-SEM and the TEM” by D. Newbery
David Newbery gave a presentation “Progress on Market Reform: EMR, the I-SEM and the TEM” at the Electricity Market Reform, Belfast 28th, March 2014 | PDF Continue Reading
EPRG Working Paper 1407
Raphael J. Heffron and William J. Nuttall Scotland, Nuclear Energy Policy and Independence Continue Reading
RPI-X, competition as a rivalrous discovery process, and customer engagement
Stephen Littlechild RPI-X, competition as a rivalrous discovery process, and customer engagement Paper prepared for the Conference, The British Utility Regulation Model: Beyond Competition and Incentive Regulation?, LSE 31 March 2014| PDF Continue Reading
EPRG Working Paper 1406
Stephen Littlechild The competition assessment framework for the retail energy sector: some concerns about the proposed interpretation Continue Reading
Energy, Politics and the Consumer: British Academy, 3 April 2014
As the national debate on fuel bills and living standards continues, the YouGov-Cambridge Programme launched a special report on ‘Energy, Politics and the Consumer‘ with an evening event at the British Academy on Thursday 3rd April. The evening covered a range of subjects, including: the reputation of energy companies in the UK and how to… Continue Reading
Sorry Ofgem: Why simpler energy tariffs are not in consumers’ interests–City A.M. article by Stephen Littlechild
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Professor Stephen Littlechild, EPRG Research Associate, contributes to the first working paper of the Regulatory Conduct Authority (RCA).
Download PDF Here A rapidly growing literature on behavioural economics shows that some errors made by regulators are persistent and predictable. Behavioural economics uses insights from psychology to explain why regulators behave the way they do. Behavioural biases can cause regulators to misjudge important facts or to be inconsistent. Regulators left to themselves will often… Continue Reading
EPRG Working Paper 1405
Tooraj Jamasb and Rabindra Nepal Issues and Options in the Economic Regulation of European Network Security Continue Reading
EPRG Working Paper 1404
Karim L. Anaya and Michael G. Pollitt Does Weather Have an Impact on Electricity Distribution Efficiency? Evidence from South America Abstract | Non-Technical Summary | PDF Also published in European Journal of Operational Research, 2017 under Using stochastic frontier analysis to measure the impact of weather on the efficiency of electricity distribution businesses in developing economies | Text Continue Reading
Planetary Economics Book Launch, 10th March 2014,
PLANETARY ECONOMICS Energy, Climate Change and the Three Domains of Sustainable Development By Michael Grubb Launch meeting on 10th March 2014, 6-7.30pm, Beves Room, Kings College, Cambridge Chair: Lord Martin Rees, former President, Royal Society and Master, Trinity College Cambridge Presentation: Michael Grubb Respondents: Sir David King (UK Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative on Climate Change and… Continue Reading
DG COMP reviews the State Aid application by Hinkley Point C, Associate Research Richard Green provides the analytic underpinning
DG COMP reviews the State Aid application by Hinkley Point C here and Associate Research Richard Green provides the analytic underpinning here Continue Reading
EPRG Working Paper 1403
Jorge E. Galán and Michael G. Pollitt Inefficiency persistence and heterogeneity in Colombian electricity distribution utilities Continue Reading
EPRG Working Paper 1402
Rahmatallah Poudineh, Grigorios Emvalomatis, and Tooraj Jamasb Dynamic Efficiency and Incentive Regulation: An Application to Electricity Distribution Networks Continue Reading
EPRG Working Paper 1401
Pär Holmberg and Andy Philpott Supply function equilibria in transportation networks Continue Reading
EPRG-DG ENER Workshop 9-10 January, 2014
DG ENER and EPRG collaborated on a join workshop that took place 9-10 January in Cambridge, United Kingdom. There was a dinner held at Clare College the evening of the 9th, including a key-note speech by Klaus-Dieter Borchardt (DG ENER, Director Unit B) and a full-day seminar at Memorial Court, Clare College on the 10th. … Continue Reading
ENEL Foundation Press Release
Press Release “The Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG), a joint research centre based in Cambridge Judge Business School and the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge recently received £190,000 as a donation from the Enel Foundation to support a two-year research project on “Zero Subsidy Scenarios and International Natural Gas Markets”. The project… Continue Reading
Defective regulations are pushing up energy prices as competition suffers–Stephen Littlechild
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