Liberalising and Regulating the Energy Market

Module I – 1 October - 13 october 2023 (Draft programme)

Week 1

Monday Introduction: The Energy Chain/Market

Tuesday – Regulating and Liberalising the Energy Market

Wednesday – Governing Electricity and Gas Production and Excursion

Thursday – Governing Energy Supply and Energy Consumption

Friday – Energy Market Liberalisation: Regulating Energy Networks and                        Introduction to Tariff Regulation

Week 2

Monday – Liberalising the Energy Market: Interconnectors, Flexibility                                 Services and Energy Storage

Tuesday – Energy Market Liberalisation via Competition Law and the Role                        of Regulators

Wednesday – Alternative/New Energy Markets

Thursday – Smart Grids

Friday – Assignment: Presentations of Papers

Academic staff

Dr Silke Goldberg

Professor of Law
Groningen Centre of Energy Law and Sustainability, University of Groningen and Partner responsible for the Groningen module of the Advanced LLM in Energy Law

Dr Hans Vedder

Professor of Economic Law
Groningen Centre of Energy Law and Sustainability, University of Groningen

Dr Edwin Woerdman

Professor of Markets and Regulation
Co-Director Groningen Centre of Energy Law and Sustainability, University of Groningen

Dr Catherine Banet

Professor of Law
Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, University of Oslo

Dr John Paterson

Professor of Law
Theme Leader Energy and Natural Resources, University of Aberdeen

Dr Beatriz Martinez Romera

Associate professor of Environmental and Climate Change Law
Centre for International Law and Governance, University of Copenhagen

External Lecturers

Expected speakers from the European Commission, TenneT, RWE, ACER, Entso-E and one day of teaching at both the Nederlandse Gasunie and Gasterra.

University of Groningen

Liberalising and Regulating the Energy Market