European Regulation Forum
on Electricity Reforms


Contract N° SSP6-CT2004-502479
 
Brussels SESSA Conference
"Implementing the Internal Market of Electricity: Proposals and Time-Tables"
Programme and Presentations

Dates: 9 September, 2005
Location: 170 Rue de la Loi, Charlemagne Building, Room S1
Brussels, Belgium

Friday, 9 September

8.30 Registration, coffee

8.45-9.00 Welcoming Address

J.-M. Glachant (Université Paris XI), F. Lévêque (Ecole des mines de Paris) and M. Poireau (DG Research)

9.00-10.40 Session: “Refining Market Design and Addressing Market Power”
(Chairman : F. Lévêque, Professor of Law and Economics, CERNA, Ecole des mines de Paris)

Speaker : D. Newbery, Professor at the University of Cambridge
Speaker : L. Bergman, Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics
Discussant : M. Massoni, Director Grid Access Directorate, CRE France
Discussant : Ana Arana-Antelo, Head of Unit Electricity and Gas, DG TREN
General Discussion

10.40-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-12.40 Session : “Ensuring EU Enlargement and Investing for Sustainability”
(Chairman : J.-M. Glachant, Professor of Economics at Université Paris-XI)

Speaker : C. von Hirschhausen, Professor at Dresden University of Technology, Chair of Energy Economics, and DIW Berlin
Speaker : I. Perez-Arriaga, Professor at Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica, Universidad Pontificia de Comillas
Discussant : Daniel Dobbeni, President of ETSO
General Discussion

12.40-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.40 Session : “Harmonising Effective Regulation and Benchmarking for good practices”
(Chairman : Pippo Ranci, Professor and Director of the Florence School of Regulation)

Speaker : B. Singh, Senior Research Economist Institute for Research in Economics and Business Administration
Speaker : R. Green, Professor and Director of the Institute for Energy Research and Policy, University of Birmingham
Discussant : Johannes Mayer, Director Austrian Energy Regulation Authority
Discussant : Gunnar Lundberg, Vice President Regulatory Affaires Vattenfall AB
General Discussion

15.40-16.00 Coffee break

16.00-17.40 Round Table : “Next steps for implementing the internal market”
(Moderator : Loren Cox, Center for Energy & Environmental Policy Research and the Joint Program on the Science and of Policy of Global Change, MIT)

JM. Glachant & F. Lévêque - introduction
B. Lescoeur, Senior Executive Vice-President – EDF International Business
P. Styles, Chairman Electricity Committee, EFET, UK
J. Vasconcelos, President of the Council of European Energy Regulators
C. Turmes, Vice-President of the Greens/EFA Group and Rapporteur on the Internal Energy Market Directive
Open discussion

17.30-18.00 Final speech by Andris Piebalgs, EU Energy Commissioner