The Electricity Area at the Florence School of Regulation is a platform where academics, national regulators, representatives from European institutions, network companies and market players debate and exchange their views and practices about the most recent developments in the industry, its regulation and broader European energy policy.
To remain at the frontier of knowledge and public debate, the Electricity Area develops applied research, innovative training and fosters policy dialogue on the most topical policy and regulatory issues in the electricity sector of Europe and beyond.
Despite the energy retail market having been fully open to competition, also for residential consumers, for more than fifteen years,…
On 28 February 2023, FSR hosted professor Gert Brunekreeft in an episode of the FSR Insights series, titled “Developing incentives…
Lack of interoperability is increasingly becoming a significant issue in the electricity sector. The need to integrate a growing amount of distributed resources, such as renewable energy sources and electric…
In this podcast, Guillaume Dezobry, partner at Fidal and senior lecturer in public law at Université d'Amiens, discusses two cases of unavailability of power plants in France and the consequences…
The first episode of the new edition of the #FSRInsights series hosted by Marzia Sesini and Nicolò Rossetto welcomed keynote…
In this article, we give a brief overview of how capacity remuneration mechanisms are organised in Europe. We do so…
The last episode of the #FSRInsights series hosted Annamaria Bagaini (Bocconi University), who presented her paper “Boosting energy home renovation…
End users have traditionally played a limited and rather passive role in the provision of electricity. However, the decentralisation and digitalisation of the energy sector today are changing the way…
Customers are expected to play a fundamental role in the transition to a decarbonised and digitalised energy system. However, experience so far suggests that customer engagement in energy markets cannot…
All you need to know about the power sector and power systems around the world Power system regulation is never at a rest, and this is particularly true for the…
EU Electricity Network Codes & the Clean Energy Package Enter the world of electricity markets in Europe ‘Evolution of electricity markets in Europe’ is an 9-week online course in collaboration…
This ten-week course covers the fundamentals of energy and climate policy in the EU Green Deal. The Grand Tour of Europe’s energy and climate policy The European Green Deal is…
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Energy regulation and decarbonisation: the challenge of net zero Recent extreme weather events around the globe, notably in east Africa and Australia, have again raised the prominence of climate change, and the urgent need for decarbonisation. Closer to home, Spain…
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