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The Florence School of Regulation presents:

Jean-Michel Glachant's Energy Today #002

27 March 2015, Joint Research Centre in Petten, The Netherlands

Jean-Arnold Vinois, Former Director of the Internal Energy Market at the European Commission, talks to Jean-Michel Glachant about the European Union

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The Florence School of Regulation presents:

Jean-Michel Glachant's Energy Today #001

15th February 2015, Joint Research Centre in Petten, The Netherlands

Interview with Jacques de Jong, Senior Fellow at Clinendale International Energy Programme, on the Energy Union

The European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) is the largest cap and trade system in the world and this year marks its 10th anniversary. Since its beginning, it has been the subject of a vigorous debate. The EU ETS has created a functioning market for emission allowances with a clear price for carbon emissions. However, the carbon price has sharply declined in these last years and many observers think the instrument is too weak to support the transition to a low carbon society. Yet recently the European Council has taken important decisions to reform the EU ETS.

This webinar provides an introduction to the EU ETS and an assessment of its performance. It also presents the current debate and the changing proposals to the EU ETS.

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Event Programme:

http://fsr.eui.eu/Events/ENERGY/Workshop/2015/150130CompletionInternalEnergyMarket.aspx

Introduction Alberto Pototschnig | FSR/EUI

Session 1: Completing the Internal Energy Markets: Consumer Expectation

Peter Claes | IFIEC, The expectation of energy intensive consumers

Monika Štajnarová | BEUC, Is the internal energy market delivering for smaller consumers?

Session 2: Progress Towards the Creation of an Internal Electricity Market

Christophe Gence-Creux | ACER, Where do we stand?

Roundtable: Priorities for completing the internal electricity market

Robert Staschus| ENTSO-E

Hans Randen | NordPool Spot/Europex

Session 3: Progress Towards the Creation of an Internal Gas Market

Dennis Hesseling | ACER, Where do we stand?

Roundtable: Priorities for completing the internal gas market

Tom Maes | AGWG, (Via conference call, not in video)

Vittorio Musazzi | ENTSOG

Overview:

In the conclusion of its meeting on 4 February 2011, the Council of the European Union set 2014 as the target date for the completion of the Internal Electricity and Gas Markets. This goal was reaffirmed in the conclusions of the meeting on 22 May 2013.

Significant progress has been achieved towards meeting this objective, both in terms of the development of the required market and network operation rules and on the ground. In fact, in terms of rulemaking, two network codes have already been adopted, a third one should be adopted soon and ten more have already been recommended for adoption to the European Commission and they could soon enter into the Comitology process. Moreover, a number of the main provisions in these network codes have already been implemented in practice, through the voluntary cooperation of national regulatory authorities (NRAs), transmission system operators (TSOs) and other stakeholders. This early implementation approach has been supported by the Agency for Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER), which has coordinated the definition of a number of Roadmaps for the rapid and effective integration of the electricity and gas markets, to deliver tangible benefits to EU energy consumers as soon as possible.

In the electricity day-ahead timeframe, a single market-coupling platform operates, since May 2014, to determine prices and cross-border flows on a large part of the EU, from the Straits of Gibraltar to the Barents Sea. Similarly, a single platform is already used for allocating capacity on the majority of internal EU gas interconnection points.

However much still remains to be done. The first coordinated auction for long-term electricity cross-border transmission rights is expected to take place in the second half of 2015, on the basis of harmonised auction rules currently being developed. In the intra-day timeframe of the internal electricity market, the development of a single continuous-trading, market-coupling platform has been repeatedly delayed and the go-live is now expected by the end of 2015 at the earliest, more than two years later than originally planned. Liquidity of many gas hubs still needs to be enhanced so that they could provide robust price signals to determine the efficient flow of gas across the EU.

A well-functioning internal energy market is also increasingly recognised as an important contributor to the security of energy supply of the EU, as well as a pre-requisite for any additional measure to promote such security.

This Workshop aims at reviewing progress in the creation of a single market in electricity and gas across the EU and at identifying what is still missing so that EU consumers can reap the full benefits.

The Workshop will be structured in three sessions. Session I will be devoted to assess energy consumers’ expectations from the internal energy market and the benefits already accrued to them. Sessions II and III will aim at reviewing progress towards the creation of a single market in electricity and natural gas, respectively.

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http://fsr.eui.eu/Publications/BOOKLET/Other/FSRManifesto.aspx

The FSR Manifesto is the first systematic attempt that the Florence School of Regulation (FSR) has done to critically reflect upon the achievements of the second Barroso Commission in the various network industries. It also endeavours to establish a realistic outlook onto the challenges that await the Juncker Commission in the various network industries in terms of regulatory policy. On the basis of FSR 10-year experience, four FSR Area Directors and Research Associates, have been observing, analysing and making policy recommendations in the areas of energy, communications and media, transport and water regulation.

Online Live Debate recording

http://www.eui.eu/Projects/FSR/Events/ENERGY/Debates/2015/150114EnergyEfficiencylivedebate.aspx

Energy efficiency has become a hot topic in energy and climate domains. Yet, is energy efficiency a real key issue for climate change mitigation? How can it be promoted? Mostly through energy pricing? Is the rebound effect a relevant issue?

These and other key questions will be debated by Tyler Bryant, Energy Policy Analyst, International Energy Agency, and Matthew Kotchen, Professor, Yale University, during an on-line debate on Wednesday, 14 January, at 15.30. The debate will be chaired by Xavier Labandeira, Director of FSR Climate.

Author: Malgorzata Sadowska | FSR

Category: FSR webinar recording

Level: intermediate

Date of release: December 2014

Recorded on 17th December 2014

How does EU law treat capacity mechanisms?

A number of European countries are concerned about the security of their electricity supply and set up capacity mechanisms to encourage investment in new generation or support existing and less profitable conventional power plants.

The European Commission closely examines these state-driven measures under EU law, as their uncoordinated implementation across Europe might have negative effects on the increasingly interconnected energy markets and thwart EU energy policy objectives.

What restrictions can the EU law impose on capacity mechanisms to minimise the distortions of the internal energy market? Can state aid, competition policy and internal market rules work?

http://fsr.eui.eu/Events/ENERGY/Webinar/2014/141217SadowskaWebinar.aspx

This is a recording of webinar held on 17th December 2014, moderated by Riccardo Galletta | Florence School of Regulation

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Organiser: Xavier Labandeira | Director, FSR Climate/EUI

Sala del Capitolo, Badia Fiesolana

Via dei Roccettini, 9 – San Domenico di Fiesole

7 November 2014

Session 1: General framework

Introduction and presentation of participants, Xavier Labandeira

Energy efficiency and climate policy: the big picture, Tyler Bryant

Energy efficiency policy instruments: issues for application, Lisa Ryan

EU energy efficiency policies, Serena Pontoglio

Energy efficiency and interactions with other climate policy instruments, Oskar Lecuyer

Session 2: Research needs and gaps

Issues for future energy efficiency policies in the EU residential sector, Paolo Bertoldi

Energy efficiency policies: the vision of an international power company, Gonzalo Sáenz

Funding energy efficiency, Juan Alario/Manuel Dueñas (not in video)

Unlocking energy efficiency in transport, Andreas Schäfer

Session 3: Ex-post analysis

Energy efficiency policy: issues, methods and data, Matthew Kotchen

An overall assessment of energy efficiency instruments, Magnus Söderberg

Nudging energy efficiency, Giovanna D’Adda

Policy packages, distribution and empirical results for Spain, Xavier Labandeira/Ana Ramos

Some empirical results for France, Louis-Gaëtan Giraudet

Some empirical results for Germany, Kathrine Von Graevenitz (not in video)

Which regulation to finance transmission investment ?

Live Debate with Vincent Rious and Arthur Henriot

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10th December 2014

Which regulation to finance transmission investment in the power sector ?

The development of the European electricity transmission grid plays a key role in the European Union’s strategy to address challenges such as decarbonisation of the generation mix, security of supply and market integration. European objectives of network development in the coming years are ambitious: the projects listed in the ENTSO-E TYNDP 2014, that account for only a part of the total investment needs, amount up to 150 billion euros by 2030.

In a business-as-usual scenarios, regulated Transmission System Operators (TSOs) might not be able to cope with this substantial amount of investment. A new regulatory regime, taking into account the ability of TSOs to finance the investments required for projects of pan-European significance, will be needed.