18th International Conference on European Energy Market (EEM 2021)

Key Topics

• Technical aspects of electricity market operation
  • Provision of ancillary services
  • Market enabling and enhancing technologies
  • Long term grid planning
  • Smart grid technologies
  • Economic aspects of energy storage technologies
  • System operation planning in market environment
  • Innovative generation technologies
  • Cost of new nuclear safety requirements
  • Internet based technologies
  • Demand site management
• Electricity Market Design, Regulation and Monitoring
  • Design and implementation of the capacity market
  • Structure of electricity market
  • Alternative market models for Europe - nodal or price zone markets
  • Market monitoring
  • Further unbundling: TSO model and unbundling of distribution business
  • Local balancing market and balancing areas
  • Market power and market strategies
  • Transmission and distribution tariffs
  • The role of the last resort supplier
  • Merges and acquisitions
  • Pan-European regulation, the role of ACER and national energy market regulators
• Implementation of the European energy and climate policy
  • Integration of regional electricity markets. Building a single European market
  • Security of supply
  • De-carbonisation of the power sector
  • Economics of renewables, support schemes and their impact on the European power systems and electricity markets
  • Stakeholder vision on the future power system
  • Economics of climate change
• Operation, modelling, forecasting and simulation of commodity, technical and financial markets
  • Carbon market
  • Technical markets: system balancing, short term reserve and ancillary services provision
  • Cross-border transmission capacity access and trading
  • Green certificate markets
  • Network congestion management
  • Futures, forward and other derivative markets
  • Risk management in energy markets
  • Electricity market modelling and simulation
  • Economic analysis of energy price evolution
  • Economic modelling of energy market
  • Portfolio management
• Presence and future of gas and coal markets
  • Economic and environmental impact of unconventional gas
  • Natural gas and coal commodity markets and derivate markets
  • Liberalization and regulation of the European gas market
  • Carbon market regulation and its footprint on electricity market
  • Recent development s in the reducing carbon footprint of fossil fuels
• Infrastructure development and asset management
  • Incentives for investments in transmission and distribution, merchant investments
  • Investments in the transmission and distribution systems
  • Transmission and distribution asset management pricing models
  • Investment analysis