Venue: Seminar Room, Carlton Connect Initiative
Presenters: Dr Ronan Bolton
As part of its Market Design Initiative, the European Union is currently consulting on changes to its Internal Electricity Market (IEM) - the long held ambition of an integrated, trans-national electricity infrastructure and trading zone. At the heart of the debate about IEM is a tension between the ideal of a fully harmonised pan-European market, where prices closely reflect the marginal costs of generation and transport in particular network locations regardless of national jurisdiction, and the right of states to influence the energy mix in their countries in line with their own national policy priorities.
Through an examination of the UK, and with some reference to the German case, Dr. Ronan Bolton argues rather conforming to the economic ideal, electricity market redesign processes are strongly influenced by historical path dependencies and the politics of energy technology choice in countries and regions. Conceptual insights from Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (STIS) are drawn upon to characterise electricity market redesign a complex, socio-technical and multi-scalar process.
from
https://events.unimelb.edu.au/events/7048-eu-perspectives-on-the-energy-transition
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