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Thomas-Olivier Leautier is Research Director at the Toulouse School of Economics, and professor of management at the University of Toulouse Graduate School of Management, where he created the Master in Risk Management.

Here he talks about policy initiatives how to integrate renewables into the power market.

This topic will be covered during the FSR's new 2 day Executive Course to Master Electricity Markets which takes place 18-19 January 2016.

Course webpage: http://fsr.eui.eu/EnergyandClimate/Training/Master-Electricity-Markets.aspx

Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy has been a member of the European Parliament since July 2009 where he sits with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. He is former Vice Chair and continues to be a member of the Environment Committee.

Recorded 17 September 2015

Here he tells Jean-Michel about the role of the European Parliament in the debate surrounding climate change and the importance of effective scientific communication.

"What I find most important after we tried the top-down approach with great failure in Copenhagen, we now have this bottom-up approach where countries have to submit their own climate plans."

"If you have a message based on data that is so unpopular that nobody will follow you then have no influence."

"Scientists and researchers are often very knowledgeable in their own field but not very knowledgeable in other fields like politics so it would be good for every scientist to take a short class on how politics works because it is a completely different world."

"What I find intriguing is the dominance of media and television, sometimes you see what I would call popular scientists who have to ability to explain a very difficult topic in a few minutes and people get behind them. Those people play a crucial role."

"Quite often scientists focus on the number and data, that is very dry information and they don't give the politicians the tools to use data for the larger public."

"Live in the real world and that's a world dominated by media and images. I work on bio-diversity but in the real world it's more important that an actor like Leonardo Di Caprio is working on that then the most esteemed scientist in the world."

"Timing is crucial if you present a report at the end of July it's clear that nothing is going to happen with it."

Peter Cramton, Professor at the University of Maryland and the EUI, is an expert in market design. Here he talks with Jean-Michel Glachant about global decarbonisation negotiations.

Recorded 9 September 2015

"The international negotiations have today been ineffective at addressing decarbonisation, and the basic problem is the process that they're using in the negotiations. They are not taking advantage of what we know about how to promote cooperation in negotiations"

"The pledges are inadequate. They are essentially what are in the self-interests of the countries."

"Price carbon - I will, if you will."

"Rather than making individual pledges, the parties should be looking for a common commitment and pledge the common commitment"

"The price of carbon is a very natural common focal of the common commitment."

The Florence School of Regulation presents:

Jean-Michel Glachant's Energy Today no.017

16 July 2015 recorded online

Walter Boltz is executive director at E-Control, Europe’s leading gas regulator. Here he talks with Jean-Michel Glachant about the nature and benefits of solidarity in European gas policy.

“…I don’t think that in the foreseeable future Europe will be speaking with one voice, because the actual interests of European counties varies widely.”

“There is this principle of solidarity but as the discussions bout the restructuring of Greek debt has shown, there are limits to solidarity and the solidarity levels is seen differently in different regions in Europe. I think what has become clear in the gas world is that certain amount of solidarity is in the interest of everybody because individually we are weaker than jointly. ”

“The stress tests have shown that if everybody tries to optimise his own national situation, the overall a significant number of citizens will be denied gas access. Whereas if we share the resources we have, then almost everybody is better off.”

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Energy Today no.022

Saskia Lavrijssen, Professor of economic regulation and governance of network industries Tilburg University, explains the new concept of prosumers in electricity markets.

Interview by Adrien de Hauteclocque, Legal Secretary (Référendaire) of Judge M. van der Woude at the Court of Justice of the European Union (General Court), Luxembourg, and an Adviser of the Loyola de Palacio Chair

Recorded 2 June 2015, at the FSR, 2015 Summer School on EU Energy Law and Policy, in Florence, Italy.

“The prosumer, that is an energy consumer, and I especially refer to households, that do not only use energy but also generate energy”

“At this moment the current national and European frame works are still based on the idea that the consumer only uses energy… however now in the future more and more consumers will also feed in energy to the grid…”

http://fsr.eui.eu/Events/ENERGY/Conference/2015/150521ClimateEUETSConference.aspx

Energy Today no.021

Jos Delbeke, Director General for DG Climate Action, talks about the EU ETS.

Interview by Claudio Marcantonini, Scientific Coordinator for FSR Climate.

Recorded 21 May 2015, at the conference Looking Back at Ten Years of the EU ETS: Lessons Learnt and Future Perspectives, in Florence, Italy.

http://fsr.eui.eu/Events/ENERGY/Conference/2015/150521ClimateEUETSConference.aspx

Energy Today no.020

Jorge Moreira da Silva, Minister for Environment, Spacial Planning and Energy, Portugal talks about EU Policy.

Interview by Claudio Marcantonini, Scientific Coordinator for FSR Climate.

Recorded 21 May 2015, at the conference Looking Back at Ten Years of the EU ETS: Lessons Learnt and Future Perspectives, in Florence, Italy

http://fsr.eui.eu/Events/ENERGY/Conference/2015/150521ClimateEUETSConference.aspx

Energy Today no.019

Guy Turner, from Trove Research talks about the EU ETS as an economic instrument.

Interview by Claudio Marcantonini, Scientific Coordinator for FSR Climate.

Recorded 21 May 2015, at the conference Looking Back at Ten Years of the EU ETS: Lessons Learnt and Future Perspectives, in Florence, Italy.

http://fsr.eui.eu/Events/ENERGY/Conference/2015/150521ClimateEUETSConference.aspx

Energy Today no.018

Daniel Dudek, Vice President of the Environmental Defense Fund, USA, talks about the international importance of the EU ETS.

Interview by Claudio Marcantonini, Scientific Coordinator for FSR Climate.

Recorded 21 May 2015, at the conference Looking Back at Ten Years of the EU ETS: Lessons Learnt and Future Perspectives, in Florence, Italy.

http://fsr.eui.eu/Events/ENERGY/Conference/2015/150521ClimateEUETSConference.aspx

Energy Today no.017

Carlo Carraro, Director of the International Centre for Climate Governance, FEEM, gives his thoughts on the forth coming Paris conference and the role of the EU.

Interview by Claudio Marcantonini, Scientific Coordinator for FSR Climate.

Recorded 21 May 2015, at the conerence Looking Back at Ten Years of the EU ETS: Lessons Learnt and Future Perspectives, in Florence, Italy.