Topics
EEM2016 includes 7 main topics
Electricity market design, regulation and monitoring
- Structure of electricity market
- Capacity and ancillary services markets
- Design and implementation of capacity markets
- Alternative market models for Europe
- Local balancing market and balancing areas
- Transmission and distribution tariffs
- Network congestion management
- Regulation of transmission and distribution systems
- Market monitoring
- Market power and market strategies
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Role of the last resort suppliers
Electricity markets & Grid planning and operation
- Market enabling and enhancing technologies
- Ancillary services
- Local balancing areas and markets
- Trading imbalances
- Transmission system planning in market environment
- System operation
- Power quality
- Impact of new technologies on the electricity market (FACTS/HVDC)
- Energy storage technologies
- Economics of energy storage
- Smart grid technologies, pricing and operation
- Smart grids for efficient integration of renewables and distributed generation
- Demand side management
- Internet based technologies
Power generation and renewable energies
- Innovative power generation technologies
- Low carbon technologies
- Cost of new nuclear safety requirements
- Impact of renewable and distributed generation on networks
- Real costs of renewable energies and distributed generation development
- Imbalances caused by renewable energies and distributed generation
- Incentives to investment in renewable energies and distributed generation
- Impact of renewable energies and distributed generation on security of supply
- Reversible hydro generation
Modelling, simulation and forecasting of energy and carbon markets
- Day-ahead markets
- Technical electricity markets: system balancing, short-term reserve and ancillary services
- Carbon markets
- Green certificate markets
- Cross-border transmission capacity access and trading
- Futures, forward and other derivative markets
- Electricity market modelling and simulation
- Game theory applied to energy markets
- Agent-based simulation of energy markets
- Econometric models applied to energy and carbon markets
- Risk management in energy markets
- Technical and economic modelling of energy markets
- Life-cycle analysis of energy technologies and storage
- Economic analysis of energy prices
- Investment analysis
- Portfolio management
Implementation of the energy and climate European policy
- European energy and climate policies
- New reforms of the Electricity regulation under climate change constraint
- Pan-European regulation, the role of ACER and national energy market regulators
- ACER, ENTSO-E and G and the EU regulations
- Integration of regional electricity markets. Building a single European market
- Economics of renewables
- Support schemes and their impact on the European power systems and electricity markets
- De-carbonization of the power sector
- Social and economic aspects of climate change
- Cross-border issues
- International coordination and co-operation
- Energy poverty policy
- Economics of biofuels
- Nuclear risk evolution
- Security of supply
- Stakeholder vision on the future power system
Present and future of gas and coal markets
- Natural gas and coal commodity markets and derivate markets
- Economic and environmental impact of unconventional gas
- Carbon market regulation and impact on the electricity market
- Liberalization and regulation of the European gas market
- Recent developments in the reducing carbon footprint of fossil fuels
Competition law, energy rules and institutions
- Energy competition Law
- Antitrust decisions applied to energy
- Law and economics of EU energy markets
- Regulation of energy sector
- US-EU comparison of energy Law
- FERC-ACER institutional comparison
- National/European system of energy regulation
- Mergers and acquisition analysis of EU energy local or regional markets
- Regional initiatives and EU wide regulations comparison
- Governance of energy reforms
