7th Joint Cambridge-MIT Electricity
Policy Conference
Policies for a Sustainable and Secure Electricity Market
London, Trinity House -- 26-28 September 2007
| Thursday, 27 September | |
| 9:10 - 10:40 am | EU Competition Policy Chair: Michael Pollitt, EPRG |
| EU
Energy Sector Inquiry – Alistair Buchanan, Chief Executive, Ofgem Energy sector competition policy: unbundling – David Newbery, EPRG |
|
| 10:40 - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 am | Meeting the investment challenge
facing energy networks Chair: Paul Joskow, MIT |
| Future
structure and regulation of transmission networks in Europe - Yves Smeers, CORE, Catholic University of Louvain Regulating network investment and quality of service - Michael Pollitt, EPRG |
|
| 12:30 - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 - 2:00 pm | Keynote Speaker: Jean Tirole, IDEI, Toulouse |
| Electricity markets and climate change | |
| 2:00 – 3:30 pm | Security of gas supply – politics
and policies Chair: David Reiner, EPRG |
| Does Europe
Need an External Energy Policy? - Pierre Noel, EPRG Addressing UK gas security of supply - Christof Rühl, BP |
|
| 3:30 - 4:00 pm | Coffee Break |
| 4:00 - 5:30 pm | Reducing the carbon intensity of
electricity Chair: William Nuttall, EPRG |
| The Future
of Coal, with special reference to carbon sequestration and storage - Howard Herzog, MIT Technology policy to support the development of low-C technologies - Karsten Neuhoff, EPRG |
|
| Friday, 28 September | |
| 9:00 - 10:30 am | Integrating Electricity Markets Chair: David Newbery, EPRG |
| Strengths
and weaknesses of Independent System Operators without ownership
unbundling - Paul Joskow, MIT Market integration – the Benelux case - Bert den Ouden, CEO APX |
|
| 10:30 - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 pm | The future of climate policies and
emissions trading Chair: John Parsons, MIT |
| Post
2012 framework ETS/Kyoto interaction - Felix Matthes, Öko Institut Evolving US policy towards carbon caps and climate change - Denny Ellerman, MIT |
|
| 12:30 - 1:00 pm | Keynote Speaker: Sir Nicholas Stern, London School of Economics |
| The prospects for effective climate change policies | |
