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http://FSR.eui.eu Organised by FSR Climate, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence in collaboration with DG Climate Action, European Commission Teatro, Badia Fiesolana Via dei Roccettini, 9 – San Domenico di Fiesole 20 - 21 May 2015 more information and programme: http://fsr.eui.eu/Events/ENERGY/Conference/2015/150521ClimateEUETSConference.aspx 14.15-16.30 Session 3: Looking Forward: What Next for the EU ETS? Chair Peter Zapfel | Head of Unit, DG Climate Action, European Commission Panelists Felix Matthes | Research Coordinator, Öko-Institut, Germany Dorette Corbey | Chairman, Dutch Emissions Authority, the Netherlands Ondřej Strecker | Senior Strategy Specialist, CEZ Group, Czech Republic Dirk Forrister | President and CEO, IETA, Switzerland Daniel Dudek | Vice President, Environmental Defense Fund, USA Carlo Carraro | Director, International Centre for Climate Governance, FEEM, Italy 16.30-16.45 Summary Ewa Krukowska | EU Reporter, Bloomberg News, Belgium 16.

http://FSR.eui.eu Organised by FSR Climate, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence in collaboration with DG Climate Action, European Commission Teatro, Badia Fiesolana Via dei Roccettini, 9 – San Domenico di Fiesole 20 - 21 May 2015 more information and programme: http://fsr.eui.eu/Events/ENERGY/Conference/2015/150521ClimateEUETSConference.aspx 08.30-08.45 Conference opening Brigid Laffan | Director, RSCAS, EUI Miguel Arias-Cañete | Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy (video recording) Jean-Michel Glachant | Director, FSR, EUI 08.45-09.00 Keynote speech Frank Convery | Chief Economist, Environmental Defense Fund, USA 09.00-10.30 Session 1: What Made the EU ETS Possible? Chair Brigid Laffan | Director, RSCAS, EUI Panelists Jean-Yves Caneill | Head of Climate Policy, EDF, France Peter Vis | EU Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford, UK John Scowcroft | Executive Adviser, Global CCS Institute, Belgium Robert Bradley | Senior Policy Advisor, Ministry of Forei

http://FSR.eui.eu Organised by FSR Climate, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence in collaboration with DG Climate Action, European Commission Teatro, Badia Fiesolana Via dei Roccettini, 9 – San Domenico di Fiesole 20 - 21 May 2015 more information and programme: http://fsr.eui.eu/Events/ENERGY/Conference/2015/150521ClimateEUETSConference.aspx 11.00-12.45 Session 2: How Has the EU ETS Worked? Chair Xavier Labandeira | Director, FSR Climate, EUI Panelists Denny Ellerman | former Director, Climate Policy Research Unit, EUI Stig Schjolset | Head of Carbon Analysis, Thomson Reuters Point Carbon, Norway Guy Turner | CEO, Trove Research, UK Franzjosef Schafhausen | Director General, Climate Change, European and International Policy, Federal Ministry for Environment, Germany Marco Mensink | Director General, CEPI, Belgium Baroness Bryony Worthington | Shadow Energy and Climate Change Minister, House of Lords, UK

http://fsr.eui.eu The Florence School of Regulation presents: Jean-Michel Glachant's Energy Today no.016 25 May 2015 from the 38th IAEE International Conference in Antalya, Turkey Former President of IAEE and Acting President of Italian AE, Prof. Carlo-Andrea Bollino talks with Jean-Michel Glachant about the implementation and status of renewables in Italy. In this interview we learn that although often overlooked, Italy is one of the leading countries in the move away from fossil fuels. “…The Italian public was environmentally conscious and didn’t want to build new fossil fuel based generation plants, but they wanted renewable energy” “Now after the crisis the rate of return from an investment in a small photovoltaic roof on your home is much better than a treasury bill of the Italian government, but that was the right signal at the time to give to a public that was suspicious”

http://fsr.eui.eu The Florence School of Regulation presents: Ilaria Conti's Energy Today no.015 22 May 2015 in Florence. Jacques de Jong, Senior Fellow at Clingendael International Energy Programme, on the Energy Union, talks to Ilaria Conti from the FSR about security of supply. "It is a highly political case with a lot of emotion around that. I feel sometimes hijacked by the political people when we are talking about energy and the security of supply" "I really do believe that security of supply is one of the key objectives of European Energy Policy, but we should define, much more in particular, what we mean by it…”

http://fsr.eui.eu Alberto Pototschnig is the Director of the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators. In this interview he answers questions about Capacity Remuneration Mechanisms, the subject of the Policy Workshop he is about to introduce at the Florence School of Regulation. Interview by Ilaria Conti | Research and Policy Coordinator, Florence School of Regulation Recorded 18 May 2015, at the FSR Regulatory Policy Workshop, A Target Model for Electricity Capacity Remuneration Schemes, in Florence, Italy. “That I think is the challenge, to make sure that the Capacity Remuneration Mechanisms are not a patch to a temporary problem, but to see how you can augment the target model that we have, with some sort of mechanisms to deal with adequacy issues, if we come to the view that this is necessary.” “the results of the last enquiry sparkled the 3rd package, now I don’t think we need a 4th package, but defiantly we need to look at the target model that we have, and see which additional components w

http://fsr.eui.eu The Florence School of Regulation presents: Jean-Michel Glachant's Energy Today no.014 6 May 2015 in Brussels Paul Van Son, chairman of MENA for RWE talks to JM Glachant about a “revolution” in the production of Middle Eastern renewable energy. “Gas and oil are not competitive anymore in these countries, so they will rapidly disappear” “We are all connected worldwide in the same interconnected energy grid” “Very soon we will see that with this very cheap production this will put pressure on production in the areas where electricity is more expensive.” “In the Middle East they will very soon transform all energy to renewables.” “I worked for many years in the renewables and I never believed it would go that fast”

http://fsr.eui.eu Andris Piebalgs is Adviser to the President of Latvia and former Commissioner for Energy (Barroso I) and for Development (Barroso II). After giving a lecture at the EUI, he was interviewed by the director of the Florence School of Regulation, Jean-Michel Glachant, during which he answered questions on the European Commission and the Energy Union, implementing policies, and regulatory authorities “The biggest challenge for Energy Regulators was the general rejection of EU agencies” “The perception Energy Union sounds good for solidarity, so that’s why the name I think” “I believe that in the third energy package we have made some compromises that we need now to come back [to]”

http://fsr.eui.eu Andris Piebalgs is Adviser to the President of Latvia and former Commissioner for Energy (Barroso I) and for Development (Barroso II). In this interview Andris Piebalgs gives his perspectives on upgrading and achieving the internal market, and the “fourth package”. “That was always the spirit, that you really had this ability to buy electricity where it is cheaper” “So it means ,2004, ten years and we are back to here, but it is not to square one, now it is not you (Jean-Michel) saying this, now the Commission is saying this, and that is good news”

http://fsr.eui.eu Andris Piebalgs is Adviser to the President of Latvia and former Commissioner for Energy (Barroso I) and for Development (Barroso II). In this third interview, Jean-Michel asks the former commissioner, “if for the 2030 targets countries will have to produce their own national plans, will the Commission have an active role in this?” “I would always wish that on some issues, particularly on energy efficiency, but also for renewable energy development, also for research, the commission support for member countries would be a great thing”

http://fsr.eui.eu The Florence School of Regulation presents: Jean-Michel Glachant's Energy Today no.012 29 April 2015, at Vlerick Business School, Brussels Jean-Michel talks with Daniel Dobbeni about the Energy Union and what the major TSOs in the world think of it. Daniel Dobbeni is the former CEO of Elia, the Belgian TSO, the former chairman of ENTSO-E, as well as the co-chairman of GO15. “It is a pity is that, despite the fact that we have the first Directive that was approved in 1996, most energy policies are still very much nationally driven when it goes to the implementation phase.” “We are not benefitting today from the seamless access to this diversity of generation sources, and this should absolutely become a priority of all our leaders.” “We asked the CEOs of the 17 biggest system operators what were their three nightmares, and to our astonishment we discovered that we shared most of these nightmares.” “All of these CEOs are concerned by the lack of stability of regulation and the fact that

http://fsr.eui.eu Author: Thomas-Olivier Léautier | Professor of Management, University of Toulouse Category: FSR webinar recording Level: intermediate Date of release: April 2015 For a variety of structural reasons, the power industry is at high risk of exercise of market power by producers. Furthermore, accurately detecting and effectively correcting market power is technically and politically challenging. Policy makers have tried a variety of mechanisms, with varying success This webinar will illustrate the potential (and real) exercise of market power, and discuss various corrective mechanisms. This is a recording of webinar held on 16th April 2015, moderated by Chiara Canestrini (FSR)

http://fsr.eui.eu The Florence School of Regulation presents: Jean-Michel Glachant's Energy Today no.011 16 April 2015, at Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge Massachusetts. Jean-Michel talks with his old friend Denny Ellerman, and is told there already is a European Climate Union, the ETS! Denny Ellerman is former director of the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, and the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research at MIT, as well as former area director of the Climate Policy Research Unit at the European University Institute's Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies “Think, you have a Climate Union, it’s called the ETS” “The problem, to my mind, is climate policy is in danger of becoming like what I regard energy security both in Europe and particularly the United States, that it is a justification for everything and for nothing, and with no results.” “It’s a long arduous, painful even process of incremental changes and people finally coming to agree to do certain thi

http:fsr.eui.eu The Florence School of Regulation presents: Jean-Michel Glachant's Energy Today no.010 14 April 2015, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge Massachusetts. Director of Florence School asks Harvard Prof. Bill Hogan how he views the existing EU Power Target Model and compares it with his own preferred Target Model. Bill Hogan is Professor of Global Energy Policy and Director of the Harvard Electricity Policy Group (HEPG) at Harvard Kennedy School. "There is a fundamental problem associated with my understanding of this design that has to do with the underlying principles of markets, and in particular with what we call in the US ‘open access’ and ‘non-discrimination’." “…we had markets in California, Texas, New England and PJM in the early days, which all collapsed because you couldn’t reconcile open access, non-discrimination, and substantial arbitrage opportunities between the market and the physical system” “The difference has to be explained in the implementation of these principles of ope

http://fsr.eui.eu The Florence School of Regulation presents: Jean-Michel Glachant's Energy Today no.009 14 April 2015, recorded on the streets outside Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge Massachusetts. Jean-Michel catches up with Simone Mori, Director of Enel, and asks him about new business models for EU utilities. “What is ENEL saying? Well to make very simply, we want to be the first and the best of the leaders in this new environment…” “If you look around the world, renewables have become more and more, a basic option for covering base load generation, this is a reality”

http://fsr.eui.eu The Florence School of Regulation presents: Jean-Michel Glachant's Energy Today no.008 13 April 2015, at Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge Massachusetts. Jean-Michel talks with Alberto Pototschnig, Director of the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators, and discovers that "at least one director of a European agency is willing to work much more” as the Energy Union might bring more power to ACER. “The increased liquidity of gas market I think that’s extremely important because flexibility in the electricity sector may come from a more flexible gas market” “ …we still need to address I would say the technical, but even more importantly the regulatory and the business model”

The Florence School of Regulation presents: Jean-Michel Glachant's Energy Today #007 31 March 2015, at DG Energy, Brussels. Jean-Michel asks Klaus Dieter Borchardt, Director of the Internal Energy Market at DG Energy of the European Commission on market design and network codes, and has a look around Borchardt's office to see if a 4th package can be found. “Jean-Michel, let me tell you I hate talking about a 4th package because you just put a label on something and you do not know what is in there. To think we come forward with new package where we develop a new policy, a new design for electricity market is wrong.”

http://FSR.eui.eu 20 March 2015, CEER Secretariat, Cours Saint-Michel 30a, 1040 Brussels Belgium 01 Introducing the paper European Energy Union, Tadhg O'Briain | European Commission 02 Christian Oliver | Financial Times, opens the debate, Energy Union, Content or Packaging? 03 Debate part 2 04 Debate part 3 05 Debate part 4 06 Questions from the Audience Debating the European Energy Union Moderated by: Christian Oliver | FT Panellist : Sami Andoura | Jacques Delors Institute/College of Europe Jean-Michel Glachant | FSR Tadhg O'Briain | European Commission Georg Zachmann | Bruegel Jean-Arnold Vinois | Jacques Delors Institute

http://FSR.eui.eu 20 March 2015, CEER Secretariat, Cours Saint-Michel 30a, 1040 Brussels Belgium 01 Introducing the paper European Energy Union, Tadhg O'Briain | European Commission 02 Christian Oliver | Financial Times, opens the debate, Energy Union, Content or Packaging? 03 Debate part 2 04 Debate part 3 05 Debate part 4 06 Questions from the Audience Debating the European Energy Union Moderated by: Christian Oliver | FT Panellist : Sami Andoura | Jacques Delors Institute/College of Europe Jean-Michel Glachant | FSR Tadhg O'Briain | European Commission Georg Zachmann | Bruegel Jean-Arnold Vinois | Jacques Delors Institute

http://FSR.eui.eu 20 March 2015, CEER Secretariat, Cours Saint-Michel 30a, 1040 Brussels Belgium 01 Introducing the paper European Energy Union, Tadhg O'Briain | European Commission 02 Christian Oliver | Financial Times, opens the debate, Energy Union, Content or Packaging? 03 Debate part 2 04 Debate part 3 05 Debate part 4 06 Questions from the Audience Debating the European Energy Union Moderated by: Christian Oliver | FT Panellist : Sami Andoura | Jacques Delors Institute/College of Europe Jean-Michel Glachant | FSR Tadhg O'Briain | European Commission Georg Zachmann | Bruegel Jean-Arnold Vinois | Jacques Delors Institute