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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)

Derk Swider

Vice President Energy Economics, Policy & Foresight, E.ON

Agenda

Check-in & lunch

12:30-13:00

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Presentation

13:00-13:10

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Discussion

13:10-13:50

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Q&A

13:50-14:15

High electricity costs are a challenge for European households and industry. While the long-term measures for bringing down electricity system costslike reducing the dependence on imported fossil fuels and deeper integration of European energy marketsare 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.