EPRG E&E Seminars Series


2016-01-12 12:30: Danish Heating Policies  (Frede Hvelplund (Economics, Aalborg University) )

2016-01-19 12:30: Corporate Lobbying for Environmental Protection  (Felix Grey (Faculty of Economics, Cambridge) )

2016-01-26 12:30: UK Carbon, Capture and Storage Policies (Dr David Reiner (Judge Business School, U. of Cambridge) )

2016-02-02 12:30: The Causal Effects of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (Ralf Martin (Imperial College Business School) )

2016-02-09 12:30: Fracking in the US vs. Europe  (Paul Stevens (Chatham House, Dundee))

2016-02-16 12:30: Climate Change and International Trade (Dabo Guan (University of East Anglia) )

2016-02-23 12:30: Swedish Carbon Policies  (Magnus Lindmark (Geography and Economic History, Umeå University) )

2016-03-01 12:30: Economic and welfare effects of UK energy tax reform   (Benjamin Jones (University of Birmingham))

2016-03-08 12:30: The German Reaction to Fukushima  (Christian Growitsch (U. of Hamburg) )

2016-04-19 12:30: Energy Mega-Projects  (Atif Ansar (Oxford) )

2016-04-26 12:30: Market power in the Irish electricity capacity market (Juha Teirila (Oulu Business School, visiting EPRG))

2016-05-03 12:30: Energy and Climate Governance (Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli (Cambridge) )

2016-05-10 12:30: How long does take to change? A review of the timelines for innovation in the power sector and other technologies and the implications for power market design and policy (Robert Gross (Imperial College London) )

2016-05-17 12:30: Wind Power in Mongolia and the Chinese/Russian Border Regions  (Richard Fraser (Cambridge))

2016-05-24 12:30: Strategic Green Industrial Policy (Carolyn Fischer (Resources for the Future) )

2016-06-07 12:30: Capacity Markets versus Strategic Reserves: Which of the two is theoretically more cost-efficient?  (Anette Boom (Copenhagen Business School, visiting EPRG) )

2016-10-04 12:30: The History of Prediction and Energy Systems of the Future  (Dr Paul Warde (Faculty of History))

2016-10-11 12:30: The Surprising Pass-Through of Solar Subsidies (Jacquelyn Pless (Oxford INET)                                                            )

2016-10-18 12:30: The Highway Boom: politics, energy demand and emissions in China  (Dr Kun-Chin Lin (Dept. of Politics and International Studies))

2016-10-25 12:30: Harnessing the Ring of Fire: Assessing the Impacts of Development Financing on Geothermal Development in Indonesia and the Philippines  (Kathryn Chelminski (Geneva IHEID, visiting EPRG)                                         )

2016-11-01 12:30: Sino-Russian Oil and Gas Cooperation: Where it stands and how far it can go?  (Prof Keun-Wook Paik (Oxford Institute for Energy Studies))

2016-11-08 12:30: Ambiguity aversion and the expected cost of rare energy disasters: An application to nuclear power accidents  (Francois Leveque (MINES ParisTech)                                    )

2016-11-15 12:30: Investigating cultures of community energy  (Rebecca Willis (Independent Researcher))

2016-11-22 12:30: Flexibility-Enabling Contracts in Electricity Markets                           (Rahmat Poudineh (Oxford Institute for Energy Studies)        )

2016-11-29 12:30: Europe’s Energy Security in the wake of TTIP and Brexit - A Legal Perspective  (Dr Anna Marhold (Tilburg Law School))

2017-01-17 12:30: The New Institutional Economics of Chinese Power Sector Reform (Michael Pollitt (EPRG))

2017-01-24 12:30: Predicting Intra-Day Load Profiles under Time-Of-Use Tariffs Using Smart Meter Data  (Melvyn Weeks (University of Cambridge)                                                            )

2017-01-31 12:30: Ethics and Energy  (Simon Caney (University of Oxford))

2017-02-07 12:30: Oil Prices and the Global Economy: Is It Different This Time Around?  (Kamiar Mohaddes (University of Cambridge)                                         )

2017-02-14 12:30: Inherent Inconsistency of EU Energy Policymaking (Oliver Geden (German Institute for International and Security Affairs))

2017-02-21 12:30: Sufficient Statistics for Imperfect Externality-Correcting Policies  (Arthur Van Benthem (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) )

2017-02-28 12:30: Energy Transitions in the 20th Century (Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck University))

2017-03-07 12:30: Market Power and Spatial Arbitrage between Interconnected Gas Hubs                           (Albert Banal-Estanol (Universitat Pompeu Fabra))

2017-04-25 12:30: Influence and the role of the expert (Susan Owens (Dept. of Geography, University of Cambridge))

2017-05-02 12:30: Grid-Scale Electrical Energy Storage: A Social Cost-Benefit Analysis  (Arjan Sidhu (Johns Hopkins University, visiting EPRG))

2017-05-09 12:30: The role of law in energy transitions: lessons from community renewables       (Annalisa Savaresi (Law School, University of Stirling)  )

2017-05-16 12:30: The CEGB and the Politics of Fuel and Power Generation, 1961-89  (Tae-Hoon Kim (University of Cambridge)                                         )

2017-05-23 12:30: Evaluation of US energy programme on clean energy startups (Laura Diaz Anadon (POLIS, University of Cambridge))

2017-05-30 12:30: Utility Regulation, Domestic Consumers and Affordability: Current Debates in the Light of Economic History (Jon Stern (City University London)                                    )

2017-06-06 12:30: Defining “Good” in “Good Energy Policy”: Insights from Theologies and Religions  (Jonathan Chaplin (Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics))

2017-06-13 12:30: Carbon Pricing and Firm Profits: Theory and Estimates for US Airlines  (Felix Grey (University of Cambridge)	)

2017-10-03 12:30: What’s under the Pot? Rural Women and Cooking Energy in South Asia (Bina Agarwal (University of Manchester) )

2017-10-10 12:45: Economic dispatch in Chinese electricity system: benefits, challenges, and possible solutions (Hao Chen (Beijing Institute of Technology, visiting EPRG)                                         )

2017-10-17 12:30: Comparison of Air Pollution Trends and Policies in London and Beijing (Jacqueline Lam (Hong Kong University, visiting EPRG))

2017-10-24 12:30: International Spillovers and Carbon Pricing Policies  (Geoffroy Dolphin (Cambridge Judge Business School & EPRG) )

2017-11-07 12:30: The Challenge of Scaling Up Low Carbon Fuels (Ilkka Hannula (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)                                   )

2017-11-14 12:30: Politics and Political Ecology of Charcoal in Uganda (Adam Branch (University of Cambridge))

2017-11-21 12:30: Energy Policy and the Power Sector in the Long Run  (Baran Doda (Grantham Research Institute, LSE))

2017-11-28 12:30: Solar Energy, Skills Development and Employment Opportunities in India (Shailaja Fennell (University of Cambridge))

2018-01-16 12:30: Behavioural Science around Policy Incentives to Reduce Energy Consumption  (Sander van der Linden (Dept of Psychology, University of Cambridge) )

2018-01-23 12:30: The Role of Natural Gas in Europe (Asgeir Tomasgard (Norwegian University of Science & Technology) )

2018-01-30 12:30: Slow Energy Policy in a Time of Global Emergencies (Jeremy Kidwell (University of Birmingham) )

2018-02-06 12:30: Climate Change Uncertainty, Adaptation, and Growth	 (Kamiar Mohaddes (EPRG, University of Cambridge) )

2018-02-13 12:30: Is Demand Side Response a Woman’s Work? Gender Dynamics  (Charlotte Johnson (UCL))

2018-02-20 12:30: Reforming the Chinese Electricity System: A Review of the Market Reform Pilot in Guangdong		 				 (Michael Pollitt (EPRG, University of Cambridge) )

2018-03-06 12:30: Power to the People – Creating Markets for Supply Security Based on Consumer Choice (Christian Winzer (Swissgrid) )

2018-05-01 12:30: The impact of PVs and EVs on Domestic Network Charges: a case study from Great Britain  (Sinan Kufeoglu (EPRG, University of Cambridge) )

2018-05-08 12:30: Electricity Market Reform and Development in China  (Guy Liu (Peking University HSBC Business School) )

2018-05-15 12:30: European Industrial Energy Intensity: The Role of Innovation 1995-2009		 (Victor Ajayi (EPRG, University of Cambridge) )

2018-05-22 12:30: Fukushima and the Law  (Julius Weitzdorfer (Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge) )

2018-05-29 12:30: Systems Innovation, Inertia and Pliability: A mathematical exploration with implications for climate change abatement  (Michael Grubb (UCL) )

2018-06-05 12:30: WEF – Water Energy Food Energy Policy: Supporting the Diffusion of Anaerobic Digestions (Liz Varga (Cranfield School of Management) )

2018-06-12 12:30: Transmission expansion, renewable locations, and generation investment in electricity markets: The impact of cross border interconnection on national investment decisions						 (Veronika Grimm (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg) )

2018-10-09 12:30: Electric Power Distribution in the World: Today and Tomorrow  (Sinan Kufeoglu (EPRG, University of Cambridge) )

2018-10-16 12:30: Evolving houses, demanding practices: A case of rising electricity consumption of the middle class in Pakistan (Rihab Khalid (University of Cambridge, Dept of Architecture))

2018-10-23 12:30: The Technical, Environmental and Economic Implications for Power Systems of Phasing Out Coal and Nuclear  (Pedro Linares (Comillas University, visiting EPRG) )

2018-10-30 12:30: Past and Prospective Transitions in the UK Gas Industry – Some Interdisciplinary Insights  (Peter Pearson (Imperial College London) )

2018-11-06 12:30: The Solar Revolution – Who Made It Happen? (Felix Muesgens (Brandenburg University of Technology) )

2018-11-13 12:30: Contestation, Contingency, and Justice in the Nordic Low-Carbon Energy Transition  (Benjamin Sovacool (University of Sussex) )

2018-11-20 12:30: Assessing the Value of Carbon Capture and Storage  (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-11-27 12:30: Energy Efficient Cities  (Ruchi Choudhary (University of Cambridge) )

2019-01-15 12:30: Energy Efficient Cities  (Ruchi Choudhary (University of Cambridge) )

2019-01-22 12:30: The Impact of the Carbon Price Support on the Emissions Intensity of Wind in the British Electricity Market (Bowei Guo (EPRG, University of Cambridge) )

2019-01-29 12:30: In Search of Invisible Energy Policy (Sarah Royston (University of Sussex) )

2019-02-05 12:30: Efficiency of Markets with Hydroelectricity  (Andy Philpott (University of Auckland, NZ) )

2019-02-12 12:30: What is the Impact of Domestic Energy-Efficiency Policies on Foreign Innovation?  (Yeong Jae Kim (UEA) )

2019-02-19 12:30: Social learning in international climate policy  (Felix Grey (University of Cambridge, EPRG) )

2019-02-26 12:30: Emergence and Control in UK Energy Democratisation (Iain Soutar (University of Exeter) )

2019-03-05 12:30: The electricity market in Russia  (Janusz Bialek (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology) )

2019-04-23 12:30: UK Heat Transition (Lauren Stabler (Global Sustainability Institute (GSI) Anglia Ruskin University) )

2019-04-30 12:30: Innovation in the UK Electricity Supply Industry: whose innovation? (Geoffroy Dolphin (EPRG, University of Cambridge))

2019-05-14 12:30: The Role of Consumption and Trade Policy for Carbon Neutrality (Karsten Neuhoff (DIW Berlin))

2019-05-21 12:30: Is there a Lack of Incentives to Invest in Energy Efficient Buildings? (Franz Furst (Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge))

2019-05-28 12:30:  Linking permit markets multilaterally (Luca Taschini (Grantham Institute, LSE) )

2019-06-11 12:30: Carbon accounts and inclusive wealth under globalization (Matthew Agarwala (Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge) )

2019-10-08 12:30: The Impact of Unilateral Carbon Taxes on Cross-Border Electricity Trading (Bowei Guo (University of Cambridge))

2019-10-15 12:30:  Oil revenues, growth and political institutions in the MENA region: Is there a resource curse? (Leila Dagher (American University of Beirut))

2019-10-22 12:30:  Climate Change Mitigation Policies: Distributional and Allocative Effects  (Zeina Hasna (University of Cambridge) )

2019-10-29 12:30: The Political Economy of Wind Turbine Location Decisions: NIMBY and the Swedish Environmental Party  (Eric Lundin (Stockholm IFN))

2019-11-05 12:30: Towards Net Zero: Engaging Citizens with Negative Emissions Technologies in the US and UK (Nicholas Pidgeon (Cardiff University))

2019-11-12 12:30: Net zero: incentives and institutions  (Joe Perkins (Ofgem))

2019-11-19 12:30:  Crowding in with Impure Altruism: Theory and Evidence from the US National Park Service (Matthew Kotchen (Yale University) )

2019-11-26 12:30: How do Housing Markets Respond to the Threat of Sea Level Rise? (Franz Fuerst (University of Cambridge) )

2020-01-14 12:30: Taxes, subsidies or regulation: Why have Britain’s carbon emissions from electricity halved? (Iain Staffell, Imperial College London)

2020-01-21 12:30: The distributional impact of policy proposals on different groups of GB energy consumers (Maureen Paul, Ofgem)

2020-01-28 12:30: The economics of BECCS deployment in a 1.5oC or 2oC world (Mathilde Fajardy, EPRG, University of Cambridge)

2020-02-04 12:30: Flexibility markets for electricity in Great Britain  (Randolph Brazier (Energy Networks Association))

2020-02-11 12:30: The competitive effects of sequential intraday electricity markets: Evidence from Italy  (Rebecca Ly (EPRG, University of Cambridge))

2020-02-18 12:30: Fossil Fuel Hydrogen: Technical, Economic and Environmental Potential (William Nuttall (The Open University))

2020-02-25 12:30: Business model innovation for sustainable development: Lessons from off-grid energy in Sub-Saharan Africa (Aoife Haney (University of Oxford))

2020-03-03 12:30: Private contributions and the regional scope of public good provision: How donation experiments can inform public policy (Andreas Lange (University of Hamburg) )

2020-04-21 12:30: Taxes, subsidies or regulation: Why have Britain’s carbon emissions from electricity halved? (Iain Staffell (Imperial College London))

2020-04-28 14:00: The scale effect of dynamic productive efficiency in China’s power grid sector (Bai-Chen Xie (Tianjin University))

2020-05-05 14:00: The green institutional investor: Wind power investment in Europe, 1990-2016 (Mercedes Galindez (EPRG, University of Cambridge))

2020-05-12 14:00: Are economists getting climate dynamics right and does it matter? (Simon Dietz (Grantham Institute, LSE) )

2020-05-26 14:00: The very real problem of imaginary energy in our data (Stephen Peake (University of Cambridge))

2020-06-02 14:00: Market transparency through a common data platform: evidence from Nord Pool (Chloé Le Coq (University of ParisII and Stockholm School of Economics))

2020-06-09 14:00: COVID-19, the Energy Transition & Adaptation Strategies for MENA Oil Exporters (Bassam Fattouh (Oxford Institute for Energy Studies & SOAS) )

2020-10-06 14:00: Castles in the Sky or Solid Foundations? Understanding Recent Developments in China’s Climate Policy (Valerie Karplus (Carnegie Mellon University) )

2020-10-13 14:00: Market Power and Price Discrimination: Learning from Changes in Renewables Regulation   (Natalia Fabra (University of Madrid) )

2020-10-20 14:00: Power after Carbon (Peter Fox-Penner (Boston University) )

2020-10-27 14:00: The Clean Energy Package and the Irish Single Electricity Market (David Newbery (EPRG, Cambridge University))

2020-11-03 14:00: The Political Economy of Energy and Sustainability in Arab Gulf States (Kristian Coates Ulrichsen (Rice University) )

2020-11-10 14:00: Econometric Modelling of Climate Change with Implications for Climate Policies  (Sir David Hendry (Oxford University) )

2020-11-17 15:00: Towards a Just Transition  (Morgan Bazilian (Colorado School of Mines) )

2020-11-24 14:00: Triggering Reduction of Imported Emissions in the EU (Anna Creti (Paris-Dauphine University))

2021-01-19 14:00: A novel approach to marginal emissions factors: Evidence from the UK and Italy (Monica Giuletti (Loughborough University) )

2021-01-26 14:00: Economics of small reactors: From a series of one-off projects to a program of production-engineered systems   (Tony Roulstone (Cambridge University) )

2021-02-02 14:00: The grass is greener (and richer) on the other side: Evidence from the United States (Zeina Hasna (EPRG, Cambridge University) )

2021-02-09 14:00: Information asymmetries in price controls and emerging issues in electricity distribution (Adam Hutchinson (Ofgem) )

2021-02-16 14:00: Accelerating the energy transition: The power sector (Melissa Lott (Columbia University) )

2021-02-23 14:00: Do consumers gain when new technologies improve the efficiency of goods trade?  (Iivo Vehviläinen (Aalto University) )

2021-03-09 14:00: Flexibility premium of emissions permits (Luca Taschini (Edinburgh Business School) )

2021-04-27 14:00: Contextualising energy justice in poverty using natural language processing (Ramit Debnath (EPRG, Cambridge University) )

2021-05-04 14:00: Future of electricity markets with distribution network constraints   (Leonardo Meeus (Vlerick Business School) )

2021-05-18 14:00: Embedded carbon prices, border carbon adjustment and patterns of trade (Geoffroy Dolphin (Resources for the Future) )

2021-05-25 14:00: Comparing public attitudes towards energy technologies in Australia and the UK: The role of political ideology  (Zeynep Clulow (EPRG, Cambridge University) )

2021-06-01 14:00: The Texas blackouts and generation adequacy challenges in Britain   (Keith Bell (Strathclyde University) )

2021-06-08 14:00: Deregulation, market power, and prices: Evidence from the electricity sector (Alexander MacKay (Harvard Business School) )

2021-06-15 14:00: Reforming renewables support mechanisms (David Newbery (EPRG, Cambridge University))

2021-10-05 14:00: Using online experiments to optimise electricity customer communications  (Beth Moon (Ofgem))

2021-10-12 14:00: Inefficient retail electricity tariffs: Welfare losses and implications for distributed energy resource deployment (Niall Farrell (Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin) )

2021-10-19 14:00: Hydrogen: Will it become the energy vector of choice for UK transport and heating? (John Miles (Cambridge University) )

2021-10-26 14:00: Does published research influence policy outcomes? The case of regulated electricity networks in Western Europe (Magnus Soederberg (University of Southern Denmark) )

2021-11-02 12:30: The grasshopper and the ant: Explaining the organization adaptive responses to climate change  (Lucrezia Nava (EPRG, Cambridge University) )

2021-11-09 14:00: The heterogeneous value of solar and wind energy: Empirical evidence from the US and Europe (Kenneth Gillingham (Yale University) )

2021-11-16 12:30: Material production in a net zero system: An overview (Lucas Gast (EPRG, Cambridge University) )

2021-11-23 14:00: The carbon-neutral LNG market: Creating a framework for real emissions reductions (Erin Blanton (Columbia University) )

2022-01-18 14:00: On the socially optimal rate for the cost of capital in low-carbon electricity generation (Jan-Horst Keppler (Paris-Dauphine University) )

2022-01-25 14:00: China CO2 targets and the Paris Agreement (Pierre Noel (Columbia University) )

2022-02-01 14:00: The Market Stability Reserve in the EU ETS: Firefighter or fanning the flames? (Grischa Perino (University of Hamburg) )

2022-02-08 14:00: Quantities with prices: Price-responsive supply of allowances in emissions markets (Dallas Burtraw (Resources for the Future) )

2022-02-15 14:00: Electricity markets in resource-rich countries of the MENA: Adapting for the transition era (Anupama Sen (Oxford Institute for Energy Studies) )

2022-02-22 14:00: Decommissioning of nuclear power plants: Survey of a “new” challenge and three research ideas (Christian von Hirschhausen (Berlin University of Technology) )

2022-03-01 14:00: Behavioural insights-based policies for the energy transition		 (Lucia Reisch (University of Cambridge) )

2022-03-08 14:00: Capturing the economic dynamics of competing power sources (Speaker to be confirmed)