Who should be charged? The challenge of fairly allocating electricity system costs
Can Europe lower electricity costs without deep compromises?
Speakers
Benoît Esnault
Vice-Chair, Gas working group, Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER)
Anna Stürgkh
Member, European Parliament
Derk Swider
Vice President Energy Economics, Policy & Foresight, E.ON
Georg Zachmann
Bruegel Senior Fellow
Agenda
Check-in & lunch
12:30-13:00Agenda
Presentation
13:00-13:10- Georg Zachmann, Bruegel Senior Fellow
Agenda
Discussion
13:10-13:50- Chair: Georg Zachmann, Bruegel Senior Fellow
- Benoît Esnault, Vice-Chair, Gas working group, Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER)
- Derk Swider, Vice President Energy Economics, Policy & Foresight, E.ON
- Anna Stürgkh, Member, European Parliament
Agenda
Q&A
13:50-14:15High electricity costs are a challenge for European households and industry. While the long-term measures for bringing down electricity system costs—like reducing the dependence on imported fossil fuels and deeper integration of European energy markets—are widely agreed upon, the short-term options to lower final consumer prices involve inescapable trade-offs. Typically, changes to network tariffication, energy taxation, subsidies, market design etc. have strong winners and losers.
At this event, Bruegel presented the findings from a policy brief on the topic of distributional issues and policy trade-offs associated with measures to reduce European electricity costs, followed by an expert panel discussion.