Energy Storage: Opportunities and Challenges
The Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) organizes its 2021 SITE Energy Talk devoted to the economic and environmental effects of energy storage adoption.
To tackle climate change, governments around the world are incentivizing the build-out of renewable energy sources. However, the inherent intermittency of wind and solar energy can only be managed with extensive energy storage capacities. Storage systems create opportunities for new entrants as well as established players in the wind and solar industry. But they also present challenges, particularly in terms of investment and economic impacts.
The webinar will therefore shed light on why market power and the ownership structure of storage could potentially distort the incentives to invest and use the storage facilities efficiently, which runs the risk of jeopardizing their potential benefits.
Special guests
Natalia Fabra
Professor of Economics and Head of EnergyEcoLab at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Natalia works in the field of Industrial Organization, with emphasis on Energy and Environmental Economics, and Regulation and Competition Policy.
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Alexey Khokhlov
Head of the Electric Power Sector at the Energy Center of Moscow School of Management, SKOLKOVO. Alexey regularly comments on the current energy issues in national business media and presents at various industry events.
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Niclas Damsgaard
Chief strategist at Svenska kraftnät (the Swedish TSO). He has previously close to 15 years of experience from consultancy, most recently as director and head of Energy Markets and Strategies at Sweco. He holds a PhD in economics from the Stockholm School of Economics and is specialized in deregulation and regulation of markets with a focus on the electricity market.
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Register here
Due to the pandemic, the event will be virtual this year, and preregistration for this webinar is required. We invite you to register as soon as possible, but no later than April 12, 23:30 CEST, Sweden time.
Date: Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 12:00 – 14:00 (CET, Sweden)
Location: Online. A link to the webinar will be sent to you 4-5 hours ahead of the start of the webinar.
Registration: Will remain open until the start of the webinar.