Research

The School carries out applied research with the purpose of developing economically, legally, and socially-sound regulation and policy, using a multidisciplinary approach.

Should I offset or should I plough? : voluntary carbon offsets and ETS in an evolutionary model

Companies with high emissions can offset their climate impact by participating in emission reduction projects through voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) in several countries. Firms...

Authors
Matteo Mazzarano Simone Borghesi MR SV
Article
The regulatory framework for independent aggregators
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Policy Paper
A framework for electricity grid data exchange and reuse for AI foundation models : reflections on five implementation aspects
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Energy Regulation Academy

The Energy Regulation Academy (EnRA) is a 3-year capacity-building initiative to help accelerate the energy transition in Europe.

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Tim Schittekatte

Part-time Assistant Professor
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Dutch, English, German, Italian, Spanish

Biography

Tim is a Part-time Assistant Professor at the Florence School of Regulation. He is also a Senior Director at FTI Consulting in London working on projects related to power market design and regulation across the globe. He is affiliated to the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) and the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR). Previously he was a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he instructed the course “Engineering, Economics and Regulation of the Electric Power Sector”, a Research Scientist at the MITEI and a Research Fellow at FSR. He graduated as an engineer from Ghent University, Belgium and completed the EMIN program, an international master programme in economics. He holds a PhD in energy economics from University Paris-Sud XI.

Recent Publications

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