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The Vienna Forum is a joint initiative between the Florence School of Regulation and the Energy Community Secretariat and is designed to highlight issues topical both for the EU and the Energy Community. This year’s Forum is divided into 3 sessions. In the first session, representatives from the Commission, the Energy Community and academia discuss the newly created EU’s Energy Union, its future role and its relevance to the Energy Community. The second session centers on decarbonisation and renewable policies. In particular, we discuss the optimal design of RES support schemes and national experiences with certificate markets. The third session addresses law enforcement in the Energy Community. The seminar closes with a roundtable discussion “Ukraine – an Energy Hotspot” bringing together energy regulators, investors, and experts in foreign affairs, diplomacy and the EU-Ukraine energy relations. 00 Welcome and introduction 00a Dirk Buschle | Energy Community Secretariat 00b Keynote speech, The Energ

The Vienna Forum is a joint initiative between the Florence School of Regulation and the Energy Community Secretariat and is designed to highlight issues topical both for the EU and the Energy Community. This year’s Forum is divided into 3 sessions. In the first session, representatives from the Commission, the Energy Community and academia discuss the newly created EU’s Energy Union, its future role and its relevance to the Energy Community. The second session centers on decarbonisation and renewable policies. In particular, we discuss the optimal design of RES support schemes and national experiences with certificate markets. The third session addresses law enforcement in the Energy Community. The seminar closes with a roundtable discussion “Ukraine – an Energy Hotspot” bringing together energy regulators, investors, and experts in foreign affairs, diplomacy and the EU-Ukraine energy relations. 00 Welcome and introduction 00a Dirk Buschle | Energy Community Secretariat 00b Keynote speech, The Energ

The Vienna Forum is a joint initiative between the Florence School of Regulation and the Energy Community Secretariat and is designed to highlight issues topical both for the EU and the Energy Community. This year’s Forum is divided into 3 sessions. In the first session, representatives from the Commission, the Energy Community and academia discuss the newly created EU’s Energy Union, its future role and its relevance to the Energy Community. The second session centers on decarbonisation and renewable policies. In particular, we discuss the optimal design of RES support schemes and national experiences with certificate markets. The third session addresses law enforcement in the Energy Community. The seminar closes with a roundtable discussion “Ukraine – an Energy Hotspot” bringing together energy regulators, investors, and experts in foreign affairs, diplomacy and the EU-Ukraine energy relations. 00 Welcome and introduction 00a Dirk Buschle | Energy Community Secretariat 00b Keynote speech, The Energ

The Vienna Forum is a joint initiative between the Florence School of Regulation and the Energy Community Secretariat and is designed to highlight issues topical both for the EU and the Energy Community. This year’s Forum is divided into 3 sessions. In the first session, representatives from the Commission, the Energy Community and academia discuss the newly created EU’s Energy Union, its future role and its relevance to the Energy Community. The second session centers on decarbonisation and renewable policies. In particular, we discuss the optimal design of RES support schemes and national experiences with certificate markets. The third session addresses law enforcement in the Energy Community. The seminar closes with a roundtable discussion “Ukraine – an Energy Hotspot” bringing together energy regulators, investors, and experts in foreign affairs, diplomacy and the EU-Ukraine energy relations. 00 Welcome and introduction 00a Dirk Buschle | Energy Community Secretariat 00b Keynote speech, The Energ

The Vienna Forum is a joint initiative between the Florence School of Regulation and the Energy Community Secretariat and is designed to highlight issues topical both for the EU and the Energy Community. This year’s Forum is divided into 3 sessions. In the first session, representatives from the Commission, the Energy Community and academia discuss the newly created EU’s Energy Union, its future role and its relevance to the Energy Community. The second session centers on decarbonisation and renewable policies. In particular, we discuss the optimal design of RES support schemes and national experiences with certificate markets. The third session addresses law enforcement in the Energy Community. The seminar closes with a roundtable discussion “Ukraine – an Energy Hotspot” bringing together energy regulators, investors, and experts in foreign affairs, diplomacy and the EU-Ukraine energy relations. 00 Welcome and introduction 00a Dirk Buschle | Energy Community Secretariat 00b Keynote speech, The Energ

http://fsr.eui.eu/ The Florence School of Regulation presents: Jean-Michel Glachant's Energy Today #006 27 March 2015, at the Florence School of Regulation's Specialized Training on Regulation of Gas Markets, Florence, Italy. Jean-Michel asks Jeff Makholm, Senior Vice President of NERA about the importance of institutions in helping the gas industry and whether Europe and China should be put in the same basket. “…pipe lines are dumb inanimate steel tubes… …it all has to do with institutions…” Find Jeff Makholm's book at Chicago University Press on The Political Economy of Pipelines. A Century of Comparative Institutional Development, here http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo12778563.html

http://fsr.eui.eu/ The Florence School of Regulation presents: Jean-Michel Glachant's Energy Today #005 17 March 2015, at the 5th Latin America Energy Econimics Meeting in Medellin, Colombia. Jean-Michel interviews Gas expert Peter R. Hartley, President of the International Association for Energy Economics, and asks him what Europeans should learn from the US shale gas revolution.

http://fsr.eui.eu/ The Florence School of Regulation presents: Jean-Michel Glachant's Energy Today #004 13 March 2015, at the Vienna Forum, Vienna. Dirk Buschle, Deputy Director of the Energy Community talks with the Director of the Florence School of Regulation about the origins of the Energy Community and its challenges today. "We have maybe been sleeping some time but we have had a couple of wake up calls but people have heard these loudly and clearly..." "...many countries have realized by now these reforms we are asking them to do are for real, that they are painful, but in the end they will be beneficial."

http://fsr.eui.eu/ The Florence School of Regulation presents: Jean-Michel Glachant's Energy Today #003 03 March 2015, at the European Commission, Brussels Anne Houtman, Principle Adviser to DG Energy at the European Commission answers questions on the Energy Union. “…the Energy Union is an objective…” Anne Houtman

http://fsr.eui.eu/ The Florence School of Regulation presents: Jean-Michel Glachant's Energy Today #002 27 March 2015, Joint Research Centre in Petten, The Netherlands Jean-Arnold Vinois, Former Director of the Internal Energy Market at the European Commission, talks to Jean-Michel Glachant about the European Union

http://fsr.eui.eu/ The Florence School of Regulation presents: Jean-Michel Glachant's Energy Today #001 15th February 2015, Joint Research Centre in Petten, The Netherlands Interview with Jacques de Jong, Senior Fellow at Clinendale International Energy Programme, on the Energy Union

The European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) is the largest cap and trade system in the world and this year marks its 10th anniversary. Since its beginning, it has been the subject of a vigorous debate. The EU ETS has created a functioning market for emission allowances with a clear price for carbon emissions. However, the carbon price has sharply declined in these last years and many observers think the instrument is too weak to support the transition to a low carbon society. Yet recently the European Council has taken important decisions to reform the EU ETS. This webinar provides an introduction to the EU ETS and an assessment of its performance. It also presents the current debate and the changing proposals to the EU ETS.

Florence School of Regulation: FSR.EUI.eu Event Programme: http://fsr.eui.eu/Events/ENERGY/Workshop/2015/150130CompletionInternalEnergyMarket.aspx Introduction Alberto Pototschnig | FSR/EUI Session 1: Completing the Internal Energy Markets: Consumer Expectation Peter Claes | IFIEC, The expectation of energy intensive consumers Monika Štajnarová | BEUC, Is the internal energy market delivering for smaller consumers? Session 2: Progress Towards the Creation of an Internal Electricity Market Christophe Gence-Creux | ACER, Where do we stand? Roundtable: Priorities for completing the internal electricity market Robert Staschus| ENTSO-E Hans Randen | NordPool Spot/Europex Session 3: Progress Towards the Creation of an Internal Gas Market Dennis Hesseling | ACER, Where do we stand? Roundtable: Priorities for completing the internal gas market Tom Maes | AGWG, (Via conference call, not in video) Vittorio Musazzi | ENTSOG Overview: In the conclusion of its meeting on 4 February 2011, the Council of

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http://fsr.eui.eu/Publications/BOOKLET/Other/FSRManifesto.aspx The FSR Manifesto is the first systematic attempt that the Florence School of Regulation (FSR) has done to critically reflect upon the achievements of the second Barroso Commission in the various network industries. It also endeavours to establish a realistic outlook onto the challenges that await the Juncker Commission in the various network industries in terms of regulatory policy. On the basis of FSR 10-year experience, four FSR Area Directors and Research Associates, have been observing, analysing and making policy recommendations in the areas of energy, communications and media, transport and water regulation.

Online Live Debate recording http://www.eui.eu/Projects/FSR/Events/ENERGY/Debates/2015/150114EnergyEfficiencylivedebate.aspx Energy efficiency has become a hot topic in energy and climate domains. Yet, is energy efficiency a real key issue for climate change mitigation? How can it be promoted? Mostly through energy pricing? Is the rebound effect a relevant issue? These and other key questions will be debated by Tyler Bryant, Energy Policy Analyst, International Energy Agency, and Matthew Kotchen, Professor, Yale University, during an on-line debate on Wednesday, 14 January, at 15.30. The debate will be chaired by Xavier Labandeira, Director of FSR Climate.

Author: Malgorzata Sadowska | FSR Category: FSR webinar recording Level: intermediate Date of release: December 2014 Recorded on 17th December 2014 How does EU law treat capacity mechanisms? A number of European countries are concerned about the security of their electricity supply and set up capacity mechanisms to encourage investment in new generation or support existing and less profitable conventional power plants. The European Commission closely examines these state-driven measures under EU law, as their uncoordinated implementation across Europe might have negative effects on the increasingly interconnected energy markets and thwart EU energy policy objectives. What restrictions can the EU law impose on capacity mechanisms to minimise the distortions of the internal energy market? Can state aid, competition policy and internal market rules work? http://fsr.eui.eu/Events/ENERGY/Webinar/2014/141217SadowskaWebinar.aspx This is a recording of webinar held on 17th December 2014, moderated by R

Florence School of Regulation FSR.EUI.eu Organiser: Xavier Labandeira | Director, FSR Climate/EUI Sala del Capitolo, Badia Fiesolana Via dei Roccettini, 9 – San Domenico di Fiesole 7 November 2014 Session 1: General framework Introduction and presentation of participants, Xavier Labandeira Energy efficiency and climate policy: the big picture, Tyler Bryant Energy efficiency policy instruments: issues for application, Lisa Ryan EU energy efficiency policies, Serena Pontoglio Energy efficiency and interactions with other climate policy instruments, Oskar Lecuyer Session 2: Research needs and gaps Issues for future energy efficiency policies in the EU residential sector, Paolo Bertoldi Energy efficiency policies: the vision of an international power company, Gonzalo Sáenz Funding energy efficiency, Juan Alario/Manuel Dueñas (not in video) Unlocking energy efficiency in transport, Andreas Schäfer Session 3: Ex-post analysis Energy efficiency policy: issues, methods and data, Matthew Kotchen An overall assessm

Which regulation to finance transmission investment ? Live Debate with Vincent Rious and Arthur Henriot FSR.EUI.eu 10th December 2014 Which regulation to finance transmission investment in the power sector ? The development of the European electricity transmission grid plays a key role in the European Union’s strategy to address challenges such as decarbonisation of the generation mix, security of supply and market integration. European objectives of network development in the coming years are ambitious: the projects listed in the ENTSO-E TYNDP 2014, that account for only a part of the total investment needs, amount up to 150 billion euros by 2030. In a business-as-usual scenarios, regulated Transmission System Operators (TSOs) might not be able to cope with this substantial amount of investment. A new regulatory regime, taking into account the ability of TSOs to finance the investments required for projects of pan-European significance, will be needed.

Regulation (EU) No. 1227/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on wholesale energy market integrity and transparency (REMIT), which entered into force in December 2011, aims at promoting transparency in wholesale energy markets and detecting and deterring market abusive behaviour on these markets. It introduces the explicit prohibition of market manipulation, attempted market manipulation and insider trading, as well as transparency and reporting obligations for market participants and other stakeholders. It also envisages the establishment of an unprecedented market monitoring framework, in which data on wholesale energy market transactions, together with fundamental data, are reported to the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER), which is responsible for their screening and initial analysis and assessment. Suspicious events are then notified to national competent authorities (NCAs), typically National Regulatory Authorities for energy (NRAs), for investigation and enforcement.