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Professor David Newbery is the founder and director of the Energy Policy Research Group at Cambridge Univeristy. Here, he talks to Jean-Michel Glachant about the rapid transition in between centralised planning and the new world of non-stop investment in renewables. Recorded in Cambridge, England May 13 2016. "It's a revolution in the sense that the system of regulation is based on trying to creat...

Steven Weissman from the University of Berkeley California discusses the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan in relation to the Paris Agreement on climate change. The Clean Power Plan aims to reduce the high level of green house gas emissions from coal-fired power plants, requiring each state to develop a plan to directly or indirectly tackle the level of emissions. It would be major element o...

At the International Energy Agency in Paris, 28 April 2016, Jean-Michel Glachant - Director of the Florence School of Regulation, interviews Fulvio Fontini, an expert on European capacity mechanisms, he works for both the Italian regulator (Autorita per l'Energia Elettrica il Gas) and CEER. “Administrative borders don’t have any effect on electrons, so we need to deal with the typology of the syst...

Jean-Michel Glachant - Director of the Florence School of Regulation, interviews Claude Turmes, MEP on European energy security of supply. Recorded at the International Energy Agency in Paris, 28 April 2016 Claude Turmes has been a leading influence in European energy policy for more than 15 years, he is a Green MEP for Luxembourg and a member of the European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Re...

http://fsr.eui.eu/event/real-value-paris-agreement/ Video version available from the link above The Paris Agreement undoubtedly forms a milestone in the fight against climate change. It sets the framework for the first long-term global common action against greenhouse gas emissions, by both developed and developing countries. The coming period up to 2020 will tell whether the structure and rules o...

Director of the Energy Law and Policy Area, Professor Leigh Hancher (EUI, Tilburg University) opens the podcast series by discussing recent case law and developments concerning national price regulation, especially the regulation of retail price markets. While wholesale price regulation has been explicitly forbidden since the Directives from the Second Package of 2003, retail price regulation rema...

Helmut Schmitt von Sydow, Professor in Parma & Lausanne, and former Director & Chief Legal Advisor at DG Energy, European Commission. At the EU Energy Law & Policy Conference, 9 February 2016, Jean-Michel Glachant, Director of the Florence School of Regulation, talks with Helmut Schmitt von Sydow, about the formation of the European Energy Union. “At first sight it seems like old wine in new bottl...

Georg Zachmann is a Research Fellow at the European think tank Bruegel At the EU Energy Law & Policy Conference, 9 February 2016, Jean-Michel Glachant, Director of the Florence School of Regulation, talks with Georg Zachmann about the problems facing the European energy mix. “Member states very directly or indirectly, as much as Brussels allows, influence their fuel mix” “One of the big questions...

Damien Meadows is Adviser to Climate Action, European Commission At the EU Energy Law & Policy Conference, 9 February 2016, Jean-Michel Glachant, Director of the Florence School of Regulation, talks with Damien Meadows to get the perspective of the younger generation at the European Commission. “COP21 is as bigger success as is possible in the United Nations Systems” “The direction the EU is going...

Enrico Maria Carlini, head of Management and engineering of the electric system at the Italian power TSO, Terna Recorded 26 January 2016 in Milan at the SmartNet project kick-off meeting, in this interview by Ilaria Conti, Research and Policy Coordinator from the Florence School of Regulation, Enrico Maria Carlini talks about the evolution of the roll of TSOs and DSOs and tells us what the SmartNe...

Thomas-Olivier Léautier, Toulouse School of Economics, University of Toulouse Graduate School of Management, France and Fabien Roques, Compass Lexecon, University Paris Dauphine, France. While directing the Florence School of Regulation’s Executive Course to master Electricity Markets, 18-19 January 2016, in Florence, Italy, Thomas-Olivier Léautier and Fabien Roques met with reporter Nicholas Barr...

Jonathan Stern, Head of Oxford Institute for Energy Studies Recorded in Vienna where Jonathan was co-chairing the ‘EU-Russia Energy Dialogue Gas Advisory Council’ ; and Jean-Michel Glachant (Director of the Florence School of Regulation) attending. In this interview we get a basic understanding were we (the EU) are today with gas and where we are going. “We are unsure where we are because things a...

Xavier Labandeira, Director of FSR Climate, shares his thoughts on the outcomes of the Paris Climate Talks. “We for the first time introduce a 1.5 degree maximum increase of temperature as an aspirational environmental objective” “Once the emitters are into the agreement, which was not the case with Kyoto, they may find it easier to proceed in a way cooperatively, because leakage or competitivenes...

Simone Mori is Enel Group’s Head of European Affairs, and Head of Carbon Strategy. In this interview from Brussels just before the Paris Climate Conference, he talks with Jean-Michel Glachant, Director of the Florence School of Regulation, about his optimism for COP21. “If we should find a single parameter which drove the change up until now, it’s the dramatic drop in cost of several technologies”...

Andris Piebalgs is Adviser to the President of Latvia and former Commissioner for Energy (Barroso I) and for Development (Barroso II) and now Senior Fellow at the Florence School of Regulation. Security of gas supply, is there enough security and is there enough supply? How important are long term contracts? An EU external energy policy? An interview by Ilaria Conti, Research and Policy Coordinato...

http://florence-school.eu/event/two-day-executive-course-to-master-electricity-markets-18-19-january-2016/ Fabien Roques, Senior Vice President with the Economics Consultancy Compass Lexecon and Associate Professor at University Paris-Dauphine, talks about the demand response, which is one of the big missing parts of well-functioning electricity markets. This topic will be discussed during the 2-D...

Massimo Tavoni, Deputy Coordinator for Climate Change and Sustainable Development, FEEM, Italy. On the 12 November 2015 at the European University Institute in Florence, he was the discussant at the presentation of the book ‘EU Climate Policy EXPLAINED’, co-edited by Peter Vis and Jos Delbeke. This book explains the EU’s climate policies in an accessible way, to demonstrate the step-by-step approa...

Peter Vis is the EU Visiting Fellow at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford (UK), for the academic year 2014–2015. Prior to that he was Head of Cabinet to Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for Climate Action (2010–2014). He has an MA (history) from the University of Cambridge (UK). On the 12 November 2015 at the European University Institute in Florence, he presented the new book ‘EU C...

Peter Vis and Massimo Tavoni answer questions from the audience after the presentation of the book ‘EU Climate Policy EXPLAINED’, co-edited by Peter Vis and Jos Delbeke. 12 November 2015, European University Institute, Florence, Italy This book explains the EU’s climate policies in an accessible way, to demonstrate the step-by-step approach that has been used to develop these policies, and the way...

Xavier Labandeira, Director of Florence School of Regulation Climate, introduces the presentation of the book ‘EU Climate Policy EXPLAINED’, co-edited by Peter Vis and Jos Delbeke. This book explains the EU’s climate policies in an accessible way, to demonstrate the step-by-step approach that has been used to develop these policies, and the ways in which they have been tested and further improved...

Adrien de Hauteclocque is a 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. Here he is interviewed by the Director of the Florence School, Jean-Michel Glachant, on the topics discussed at the FSR Fifth Policy Advisory Council which brought together renowned academics,...

FSR Fifth Policy Advisory Council report by Jean-Michel Glachant The FSR Policy Advisory Council is the bi-annual exclusive meeting where the FSR tests new ideas and research proposals with a small selected audience of FSR donors, academics, regulators and representatives from EU Institutions. Held under Chatham House Rules, the PAC is attended by significant players in the European Energy Industr...

Jorge Vasconcelos, former regulator of Portugal and co-founder of CEER (Council of European Energy Regulators) talks about the evolution of European energy system – in the light of its decentralisation or “localisation”. Interview by Jean-Michel Glachant, Director of the Florence School Recorded at the FSR’s 5th Policy Advisory Council on 6 November 2015 “The application of these [digital] technol...

Prof. Karsten Neuhoff is Head of the Climate Policy Department at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). In this interview by the FSR Research and Policy Coordinator Ilaria Conti, Prof. Neuhoff answers questions on the evolution of electricity balancing in Europe in light of the current and upcoming challenges. And, one big question: can we think of a single electricity Balancing...

Professor Ariel Ezrachi is the Slaughter and May Professor of Competition Law and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. Here he talks to Nicholas Barrett about the algorithms after our money. "The use of a single algorithm could have a de-facto horizontal impact on pricing." "We also reflect on the possibility of using algorithms to facilitate tacit collusion." "We discussed the possibility of alm...