Professor Richard Green will hold this PhD course at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB), Ås, 30 August - 3 September.
Topics will include an introduction to the electricity industry; overview of liberalisation; electricity transmission; wholesale markets for electricity; economic regulation; the fuel industries and electricity retailing; market power models and studies; price control; and energy policy, carbon trading, support for renewable generation.
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Aim and content This course will show how economic analysis has been, and is being, applied to the electricity industry. Key themes will include the relationship between costs and market prices, methods of regulating monopolies, and the desirable level of investment. Ways of internalising environmental effects, such as carbon emissions, will be considered at length during the course. The course is intended for Ph.D. students, early-career researchers and advanced Masters students, and there will be some opportunities for participants to present their work during the course.
The lecturer Richard Green is currently the Director of the Institute for Energy Research and Policy and Professor of Energy Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Birmingham. He has worked at the University of Cambridge (where he took his degrees) and the University of Hull, and held visiting positions at the Office of Electricity Regulation, University of California Energy Institute, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Green is further a member of the Supergen Flexnet Consortium, and an Associate of the Electricity Policy Research Group. He is also a Fellow of the Energy Institute.
Abstract and participation Application deadline is 22th of August 2010. Students who wish to present their work should send a 2-page abstract to inger-lise.labugt@umb.no by August 9th – they will be notified whether they will be asked to give a presentation (which is likely to be for between 15 and 30 minutes, depending on demand) by August 18th.
