Energy Economics Workshop, 17 June 2010, The Hague

Innovation and Environmental Policy, (Information).

Presentation "Preadviezen", 11 December 2009, The Hague

The Boundary Between Markets and Government (Afbakening Overhied en Markt), (Information).

Interview for Econtrack

PhD Defense Eckart Ehlers, 23 November 2009, Tilburg

Regulating Investments in energy networks, (Information).

Energy Economics Workshop, 9 October 2009, The Hague

Regulating Investments in energy networks, (Information).

Energy Economics Workshop, 23 April 2009, The Hague

Liberalization of the gas market: prices and investments, (Information).

EU ENERGY POLICY

Academic opinion on "a system for congestion management in the Netherlands"

The Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs has asked us to provide some comments on the assessment of different congestion management methods performed by D-Cision and the Brattle Group. In general, we agree with most of the discussions in the assessment. However, at some points, we feel that the assessment can benefit from
another perspective on the problems and benefits of implementing the different congestion management systems.
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Regulating the price of nuclear power generation: a new French exception

To promote competition in the retail market of electricity and to ensure that the cost advantage of the fleet of nuclear reactors continues to benefit to French households and companies a commission has recently recommended to the government to introduce a price and quantity regulation of the nuclear kWh. No doubt planning à la française is alive and well.
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Should antitrust authorities allow long-term contracts in the energy market?

Long-term contracts play an important role in the energy industry, both in the electricity sector and in the gas sector. Gas importers sign long-term take-or-pay contracts with gas exporters, and resell the gas on a long-term basis to gas retailers. Similarly, energy-intensive companies often contract their electrical energy several years ahead.
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Market Power Mitigation By Regulating Contract Portfolio Risk

Until now, the European Union has relied on standard competition rules to deal with abuse of market power in the generation sector. We argue that relying only on general competition rules is insufficient to address those concerns, given the specific characteristics of the electricity market and the high level of concentration in some segments. As a complementary ex ante regulation, we suggest regulators should incentivize firms to sign contracts with retailers by regulating their contract portfolio risk exposure, i.e. a capital adequacy requirement should be imposed.
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