Seminar Description

Objective of the Seminar:
The ERRA New Commissioner Seminar provides a structured and relaxed training opportunity for newly appointed regulatory chairman, presidents and commissioners in six outstanding topics highly relevant for senior energy regulators. It gives a brief introduction to utility industries and provides an excellent foundation for management for their work as they assume their new regulatory functions.

The main characteristic of the program is that the course instructors are all senior level practising and/or former regulators, some of them former alumni of the same program. The curriculum comprises „classic” regulation under the traditionally vertically integrated industry structure with up-to-date issues of regulation in developing competitive industry environment.

Target Audience:
Newly appointed Presidents & Commissioners of Energy Regulatory Agencies

Seminar Program:
The New Commissioner Seminar provides a structured and relaxed discussion of six outstanding topics highly relevant for energy regulators of the ERRA countries such as:

Organizational Structure & Management of a Regulatory Body: This session raises all the relevant organisational and management issues that New Commissioners are to face when managing their institution and their job.

Energy Policy Initiatives: This session introduces the participants to the basics of energy policy initiatives.

Regulation and Security of Supply: This is a global session on regulation and energy supply security. Discussion will include regulatory roles in a broader sense; the impact of regulatory behaviour on investment decisions; gas dependency and security of supply.

Electricity Market Models: This session gives an overview on the basic building blocks as well as on principal models of electricity markets. Introduction is provided on the operations of wholesale markets as well as on retail choice of customers.

Price Regulation: This session discusses the basic principles of and issues related to the most important regulatory task: energy price and tariff regulation.

Regulatory Monitoring and Reporting: This session will give an introduction to the monitoring activities that Regulatory Commissions are to set up in order to support their regulatory and enforcement activities.

Tuition fee:

*Includes accommodation for 4 nights, luches and coffee breaks during the course, group dinner and social program.