ESRI Policy Seminar: "Competition, Regulation and Reform in the Electricity Sector"

Venue: ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin 2. 

Speaker: Professor Dieter Helm  University of Oxford. Competition, Regulation and Reform in the Electricity Sector by Professor Dieter Helm, University of Oxford. 

• Is competition working? 
• Why aren’t falling fossil fuel prices feeding through to customers? 
• Can renewables compete in energy only markets? • What are the impacts of capacity auctions? 
• What are the consequences of zero margin cost generators? 
• How should sticky supply customers be protected? 
• Is there a role for default tariffs? 
• How will storage and smart technologies transform the electricity industry? 

Hosted by the ESRI Energy Policy Research Centre and the SFI Sustainable Electrical Energy Systems Cluster