Testing the Limits of European Ambitions on Emissions
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Category Archives: Other papers-2014
Barriers to the adoption of energy-saving technologies in the building sector: A survey study of Jing-jin-tang, China
Ping Du, Li-Qun Zheng, Bai-Chen Xie, Arjun Mahalingam Barriers to the adoption of energy-saving technologies in the building sector: A survey study of Jing-jin-tang, China Available at Science Direct Here Continue Reading
New EPRG Policy Brief on EU 2030 energy and climate proposals
For full text of the EPRG Policy Brief: https://www.eprg.group.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/EPRG-Policy-Brief-22-Oct-14.pdf ‘Nothing is being done’ to explicitly encourage emissions cut by China and America’ 22 October 2014 The 2030 framework on climate change and energy policy being debated at a European Union summit this week has a “glaring omission” by failing to link EU policy to… Continue Reading
Op-ed “Ukraine’s energy brinkmanship” by Chi Kong Chyong and Pierre Noël
In the fog of its foreign-policy confrontation with Russia over Ukraine, the European Union seems unable to see its energy-security interests clearly or to act accordingly. Kiev has used the international crisis triggered by Russia’s actions in Crimea and eastern Ukraine to restructure the contracts with Moscow it signed in 2009. It wants a much… Continue Reading
The Customer Forum: customer engagement in the Scottish water sector
Stephen Littlechild The Customer Forum: customer engagement in the Scottish water sector 11 Jul 2014 | PDF Continue Reading
Stephen Littlechild: Submission to CMA
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RPI-X, competition as a rivalrous discovery process, and customer engagement
Stephen Littlechild RPI-X, competition as a rivalrous discovery process, and customer engagement LSE, London, 31 Mar 2014 | PDF Continue Reading
The Cost Effectiveness of Renewable Energy Support Schemes in the European Union
David Newbery, David Reiner, and Arjun Mahalingham The Cost Effectiveness of Renewable Energy Support Schemes in the European Union Published at the International Association for Energy Economics, Third Quarter, 2014 pg. 21 | Click here for the link Continue Reading
Report of the Panel of Technical Experts, of which David Newbery is a member
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There is a problem in the UK’s energy market – but it’s the regulator’s fault–A.M. article by Stephen Littlechild
Stephen Littlechild There is a problem in the UK’s energy market – but it’s the regulator’s fault City A.M., 1 July 2014 | Article 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
Explanatory Statement on the Regulatory Conduct Authority’s Occasional Paper 1
There was a wide variety of responses to “Applying behavioural economics at the Regulatory Conduct Authority”, Occasional Paper 1, published on 1 April 2014. These ranged from support for or concern about the RCA’s proposed policy, through the enigmatic “thank you, very interesting”, to “fantastic, brilliant”. But I suspect that a large number of readers… 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
Energy trade between Europe and Russia will depend on trust
Marc Ozawa Energy trade between Europe and Russia will depend on trust Click here for the full article Continue Reading
UK Renewables Demonstration Projects: Who Pulls the Plug?
Jon Stern UK Renewables Demonstration Projects: Who Pulls the Plug? Letters & Notes On Regulation–Number 3.1 | Published February, 2014 | PDF | Continue Reading
Trust and European-Russian Energy Relations – The Case of Oil and Gas Partnerships and Long Term Contracts
Marc Ozawa Trust and European-Russian Energy Relations – The Case of Oil and Gas Partnerships and Long Term Contracts February, 2014 | PDF 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