1st Research Workshop on Energy Economics

Date:  28 September 2012
Venue: Utrecht University College, Utrecht

Topic  
BAEE organizes a small-scale workshop which offers Master and PhD-students and experienced researchers from the Benelux the opportunity to present a paper on energy economics and to interact with colleagues. 
The workshop covers all topics related to energy economics, from environmental policy and reliability of energy networks to regulation and competition issues. We will accept papers in economic theory, empirical work and economic policy, and are also open towards interdisciplinary work such as techno-economic energy models or legal-economic analysis of energy policy. We especially encourage Master and PhD-students to submit their work. The papers will be reviewed by a scientific committee.

Scientific committee
 Per Agrell (UCL Leuven), Machiel Mulder (NMa/University of Groningen), Guido Pepermans (Hogeschool - Universiteit Brussel), Stef Proost (K.U. Leuven), Mark Sanders (University of Utrecht), Bert Scholtens (University of Groningen), Laurens de Vries (TU Delft) and Bert Willems (Tilburg University). 

Program

10:00

10:15 - 11:00



11:00 - 11:15

11:15 - 12:45



















12:45 - 13:30

13:30  - 14:00



14:00 - 16:00
























16:00 - 16:15

16:15 - 17:00



17:00 - 17:15

17:15

Opening by Machiel Mulder (Chair BAEE)

Presentations by research institutes
- Utrecht School of Economics, Tilburg University, University of Groningen

Coffee break

Parallel sessions

Session A1 (Chair Laurens de Vries)
1. "The influence of underlying fuels on electricity futures prices" - Mehtap Kilic (Erasmus University of Rotterdam)
2. "Reducing fuel volatility: an additional benefit from blending bio-fuels?" -  Barbara Sophia Koelbl (Utrecht University)
3. "The new Dutch market based gas balancing regime: an economic assessment of its design" - Arthur van Dinther (Utrecht University) 

Session B1 (Chair Hamilcar Knops)
4. "Safeguarding investments in gas infrastructure – what to learn from regulatory regimes in the US and the EU?" - Tim Boersma (University of Groningen)
5. "The effect of policy uncertainty on energy infrastructure deployment: A real option approach for CCS pipeline networks" - Joris Morbee (European Commission, Institute for Energy and Transport)
6. "Harnessing open energy data: the philosophy, tools and practice behind enipedia.Tudelft.nl" - Chris Davids (Delft University of Technology) 

Lunch

Keynote address
"Optimal regulation of lumpy investments" -  Gijsbert Zwart (CPB / TILEC) (Presentation / paper)

Parallel sessions
Session A2 (Chair: Machiel Mulder)
7. "Is the EU ETS relevant? An event study on the value effects of overallocation" - Thijs Jong (University of Groningen)
8. "Impacts of the Introduction of CO2 Price Floors in a Two-Country Electricity Market Model" - Joern Richstein (Delft University of Technology) 
9. "Discriminative support of renewable energy technologies" - Lotte Ovaere (KU Leuven)
10. "Car fuel efficiency: Explaining global policy differences" - Win Benoot (KULeuven)

Session B2 (Chair: Bert Willems)
11. "Price Drivers for Renewable Energy Certificates: Lessons from the European Carbon Market - Riccardo Fagiani" (Delft University of Technology) 
12. "Impact of the implementation of a German capacity market in combination with high intermittent generation on the Dutch electricity market" - Marit van Hout (Energy research Centre of the Netherlands, ECN) 
13. "Energy and capacity market models and their effects on the economics of the power sector in the Netherlands"  - Christian Redl (DNV KEMA) 
14.  "Strategical Congestion in the Day-Ahead Electricity Market - Dario de Maio (IMT, Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca)

Coffee break

Presentations by research institutes
- Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN), Delft University of Technology, KU Leuven

Closing remarks by Bert Willems (Vice-chair BAEE)

Drinks

Location 

Spinoza Hall
International Campus Utrecht 
Utrecht University 
Kriekenpitplein 18-19
Utrecht 
Netherlands

Link to Utrecht Unviversity Map

Organization

Machiel Mulder, Laurens de Vries, Bert Willems

The BAEE thanks the Tjalling C. Koopmans Instituut and the Utrecht School of Economics (USE) for hosting the conference.