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Browsing RSCAS Articles by Author "GLACHANT, Jean-Michel"
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Title:EU 2050 Low-Carbon Energy Future: Visions and strategies
Author(s):MEEUS, Leonardo; AZEVEDO, Isabel; MARCANTONINI, Claudio; GLACHANT, Jean-Michel; HAFNER, ManfredDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[THINK]Abstract:Analysis of the visions of key EU Member States to achieve a low-carbon energy system by 2050 finds that the states are already pursuing sometimes divergent strategies that create new risks for energy policy fragmentation ...
Title:Designing the European Gas Market: More liquid & less natural?
Author(s):VAZQUEZ, Miguel; HALLACK, Michelle; GLACHANT, Jean-MichelDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[Florence School of Regulation]Abstract:Designing a gas market is defining how the commodity, the transmission and ancillary services are traded. The European Union has built the commoditization of natural gas through the socialization of several costs of trade. ...
Title:Regulating Networks in the New Economy
Author(s):GLACHANT, Jean-MichelDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[Loyola de Palacio Chair]Abstract:The regulation of network industries has undergone profound transformation in the past twenty years. The regulated industry is no longer the same, being exposed to new competitive dynamics having revolutionized their ...
Title:An Assessment of the Tools of Incentive Regulation in Electricity Networks
Author(s):KHALFALLAH, Haikel; GLACHANT, Jean-MichelDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[Loyola de Palacio Chair]Abstract:Network regulation is playing an active role in a context of restructuring energy systems for long term transition to a smart grid. Regulation of network companies’ activities should consider both cost efficiency objectives ...
Title:A New EU Gas Security of Supply Architecture?
Author(s):DE JONG, Jacques; GLACHANT, Jean-Michel; HAFNER, Manfred; AHNER, Nicole; TAGLIAPIETRA, SimoneDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[Loyola de Palacio Chair]Abstract:Drawing the conclusions of four dedicated workshops Jacques de Jong, Jean-Michel Glachant, Manfred Hafner, Nicole Ahner and Simone Tagliapietra recommend a new approach distinguishing clearly between the short-term vision ...
Title:Differentiated Integration Revisited: EU energy policy as experimental ground for a Schengen successor?
Author(s):AHNER, Nicole; DE HAUTECLOCQUE, Adrien; GLACHANT, Jean-MichelDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[Loyola de Palacio Chair]Abstract:For the EU-27 the accommodation of national diversity and conflicting preferences with regard to the pace and scope of the development of the EU energy policy remains a major problem. The resulting institutional paralysis, ...
Title:Building Gas Markets: US versus EU, market versus market model
Author(s):VAZQUEZ, Miguel; HALLACK, Michelle; GLACHANT, Jean-MichelDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[Loyola de Palacio Chair]Abstract:The liberalization process of the gas sector has showed that the reasoning to introduce competition in gas industries separates the services in at least two groups: commodities with relatively low transaction costs, and ...
Title:Regulators as Reflexive Governance Platforms
Author(s):BROUSSEAU, Eric; GLACHANT, Jean-MichelDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Network industries are now characterized by a regime of permanent innovation, while they continue to be fixed and sunk cost industries, due to the high level of investments in R&D and infrastructures. Players in these ...
Title:A Novel Business Model for Aggregating the Values of Electricity Storage
Author(s):HE, Xian; DELARUE, Erik; D’HAESELEER, William; GLACHANT, Jean-MichelDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Electricity storage is considered as a valuable source of flexibility with applications covering the whole electricity value chain. Most of the existing evaluation methods for electricity storage are conceived for one ...
Title:Power Transmission Network Investment as an Anticipation Problem
Author(s):RIOUS, Vincent; PEREZ, Yannick; GLACHANT, Jean-MichelDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Power generation and transmission are complementary activities that must be coordinated to ensure an optimal use and development of the transmission network. This coordination is today more difficult in a liberalized system, ...
Title:Well-Functioning Balancing Markets: A Prerequisite for Wind Power Integration
Author(s):VANDEZANDE, Leen; MEEUS, Leonardo; BELMANS, Ronnie; SAGUAN, Marcelo; GLACHANT, Jean-MichelDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article focuses on the design of balancing markets in Europe taking into account an increasing wind power penetration. In several European countries, wind generation is so far not burdened with full balancing ...
Title:Where the Champsaur Commission Has Got it Wrong
Author(s):CRAMPES, Claude; GLACHANT, Jean-Michel; VON HIRSCHHAUSEN, Christian; LÉVÊQUE, François; NEWBERY, David; PÉREZ-ARRIAGA, Ignacio; RANCI, Pippo; STOFT, Steven; WILLEMS, BertDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:One fairly unique feature of France is that it hosts a large ?eet of nuclear reactors. It is owned by the incumbent, EdF, and provides this 85-percent state-owned enterprise with an economic advantage to compete on price. ...
Title:Le marché du temps réel comme le plus petit multiple commun des architectures de marché électrique
Author(s):SAGUAN, Marcelo; PEREZ, Yannick; GLACHANT, Jean-MichelDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:L’introduction de la concurrence dans le secteur électrique, longtemps organisé autour d’un monopole intégré en production-transport, fait apparaître des problèmes de coordination qu’il convient de traiter par la mise en ...
Title:Take-or-Pay Contract Robustness: A three step story told by the Brazil-Bolivia gas case?
Author(s):GLACHANT, Jean-Michel; HALLACK, MichelleDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Neo-institutional economics (NEI) has long shown that take-or-pay (ToP) long-term contracts provide a robust framework for safeguarding the interests of both upstream and downstream parties in the gas industry. The case ...