The seminar is free of charge, but registration is mandatory.
Registration deadline: Friday, 29 March
About the seminar:
Changing patterns in electricity generation and consumption raise tremendous challenges for transport and distribution infrastructures and their operators. The electricity networks remain the backbone of the electricity system, but are going through important adaptations. Not least, grid operators will need to increase cooperation, while they also may become competitors in supplying grid services and making use of flexibility. The evolution of electricity networks and their operators is among the central issues in current electricity market reforms.
During the seminar, the following questions will be discussed:
- Which options are available to governments when designing new market rules?
- Between increased regional and European grid integration on the one hand and multiple local initiatives on the other hand, what will be the importance of the national grid?
- How should TSOs and DSOs cooperate with respect to system management, balancing, infrastructures development and use of flexibility?
- How to develop, integrate and value the flexibility provided by notably electric vehicles and demand responses? How new power market places intend to play a role?
- How should tariffs be regulated to ensure required investments and a fair energy transition?
The seminar builds on current CREE research projects as well as recent regulatory and business initiatives in Europe.
Program
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12.00 - 12.30
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Welcome lunch |
| Welcome and opening presentation: Governance approaches in EMD | |
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12.30 - 12.35
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Welcome and introduction to the seminar by Rolf Golombek, Frishsenteret and Director CREE and Catherine Banet, Ass. Prof., University of Oslo, Faculty of Law |
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12.35 - 13.10
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National Governance of Electricity Market Design, Randi Kristiansen, International Energy Agency, IEA/EMS/GCP, Paris |
| EMD – Electricity networks and the changing roles of their operators | |
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13.10 - 13.40
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Relationship between central and local grids: the TSO-DSO cooperation. Competition or complementarity?, Guillaume Dezobry, Senior lecturer in public law, Lawyer at FIDAL, AFDEN/Paris Dauphine University |
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13.40 - 14.10
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Local grids: why DSOs should not leave it to the TSO alone to engage in active system operations. An economic perspective on the relationship TSO-DSO, Jørgen Bjørndalen, DNV GL |
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14.10 - 14.30
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Tea/Coffe break |
| EMD – Electricity networks: flexibility, investments and coordination | |
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14.30 - 15.00
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Electric cars and the grid, Professor Nils-Henrik M. von der Fehr, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Economics, University of Oslo |
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15.00 - 15.30
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NODES: A new Nordic marketplace for increased regional flexibility, Enno Böttcher, CEO NODES |
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15.30 - 16.00
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Grid tariff regulation: between needs for new investments and fair energy transition, Ass. Prof. Catherine Banet, University of Oslo |
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16.00 - 16.30
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Pan-European balancing markets, Astrid Skjønborg Brunt, Legal Counsel, Statnett and Kanerva Sunila, Aalto University, Finland |
| Discussion and conclusion: 16.30-17.00 | |
Organisers:
The seminar is co-organised by CREE (Oslo Centre for Research on Environmentally friendly Energy) and the Research Group on Natural Resources Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo.
In cooperation with:
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