FSR ANNUAL COURSE ON REGULATION OF ENERGY UTILITIES COURSE DESCRIPTION 2011/2012 EDITION
BLOCK I: residential week in Florence
Period: 10-14 October 2011
Objectives: The first residential week covers in a 5-day intensive course all major issues on energy regulation at an introductory level. This block is meant to be the introduction to the entire training. The week in Florence includes social events to stimulate networking among participants from different countries and regulatory cultures
Modules: The first residential week covers in a 5-day intensive course all major issues on energy regulation at an introductory level. This block is meant to be the introduction to the entire training. The week in Florence includes social events to stimulate networking among participants from different countries and regulatory cultures:
Day 1: Electric power systems: gas systems, theory and principles of regulation; models of regulation and restructuring energy industry.
Day 2: Monopolistic activities; competitive activities; quality of service in electricity and gas; environmental issues in energy systems.
Day 3: Wholesale electricity markets; retail electricity markets; traditional regulation of energy utilities; electricity transmission; electricity distribution.
Day 4: Wholesale gas market; retail gas market; gas network.
Day 5: Tariff design; legal issues in regulatory commissions; the internal electricity and gas markets.
Modules: 1.Electric power systems 2.Theory and principles of regulation 3.Traditional regulation of the electricity industry 4.Monopolistic activities 5.Competitive activities 6.Wholesale electricity markets 7.Electricty power transmission 8.Wholesale markets in gas 9.Network regulation in gas 10.Electricity distribution 11.Service quality regulation 12.Electricty retail markets 13.Tariff design 14.Legal procedures 15.Environmental regulation.
Structure:
Modules 1 to 3 are essential reading materials, while modules 4 to 15 are subject to exercise.
Each module is explained in a syllabus, which includes selected bibliography. Students may check their understanding through self-assesment tests and ask the instructor for clarification.
Two weeks are devoted to the study of each module. By the end of the first week, each student has to submit short answers regarding basic concepts of the module topic. By the end of the second week, each student has to submit a case study dealing with a major issue related to the module topic.
Throughout the two weeks, all students participate and discuss in a forum about issues proposed by themselves and the instructor.
Student work is supervised, encouraged and marked by the module instructor.
Objectives: Block III consists of the three-days residential sessions, devoted to the discussion of case studies and the presentation of some other topics of specific interest to the course participants. A field trip to a power system installation is scheduled. A final one-day workshop on energy and sustainability, including the closure of the course with delivery of diplomas to participants will also be organised
Modules:
Day 1: Case study on quality of supply and the protection of energy consumers; long-term security of supply in gas; case study on legal procedures in energy regulatory commissions.
Day 2: Field trip to visit a power system facility.
Day 3: Case example on authorization of operations of mergers and acquisitions; communication issues in energy regulatory commissions; case study on long-term security of supply in electricty generation; case study on issues in design and regulation of day-ahead electricity markets.
Day 4: Case study on electricity transmission investment and pricing; case study on electricity tariff design; evaluation of the implementation of the internal energy market.
Day 5: Current issues affecting the sustainability of the present energy model; the limits to fossil fuel supply and the sustainability of the energy model; the social component of sustainability; universal energy access.
Eligible Participants The Annual Training is addressed to staff from energy regulatory institutions worldwide and energy companies that are sponsors of the FSR. In case you do not belong to one of these categories, please check our Summer School, which is open to all interested.
Fee: €4.500
Registration Application Deadline: 5th September 2011.
Contacts
For info about the programme please contact Annika Zorn, FSR Coordinator (phone +39 055.4685.746), or Ernesto Bonafé, FSR Training Coordinator (phone +39.055.4685.782)
For info about accomodation and logistics please contact the FSR Conference Unit (phone +39 055.4685.709/789/790)
