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EU and Energy Policy

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2011-2012

Admission requirements

Admission to the Master EUS.

Description

With the acceptance of the Lisbon Treaty, the third pillar of energy policy has become a shared competence of the European Union. In this course we will review the history of energy policy-making in the EC/EU, the current energy policy initiatives and the relationship of energy policy with other governance institutions. In the past decade, energy has again gained strategic importance. High prices (before the financial crisis) and climate change policy have greatly impacted on the governments’ involvements in the energy market.

Themes per class:

  • Energy, Economics and Policy

  • What about politics?

  • Oil, Gas and Power: the essentials

  • European Energy Policy

  • Market design

  • Today’s Challenges

Course objectives

Students will aquire insight in the history of EU engergy policy, the EU internal energy market policy and the relationship with other governance instituitions.

Timetable

Timetable.

Mode of instruction

Tutorial.

Assessment method

Essay and presentation.

Blackboard

Yes, see the site.

Reading list

  • Andoura, Leigh Hancher and Marc van der Woude (2010) “Towards a European Energy Community: A Policy Proposal”, Notre Europe,

  • Barysch, Katinka (2011) Green, safe, cheap: Where next for EU energy policy? Edited by Katinka Barysch

  • Correljé, Aad and Lucia van Geuns (2011) “The Oil Industry: A Dynamic Helix”, in: International Handbook of network Industries: The liberalization of Infrastructure (eds. Matthias Finger, Rolf Künneke), Edgar Elgar, pp. 197-214.

  • Correljé, Aad, Laurens de Vries (2008) “Hybrid Electricity Markets: The problem of explaining Different Patterns of Restructuring”, in: (ed. Fereidoon P. Sioshansie) Competitive Electricity Markets: Design, Implementation and Performance, Elsevier Global Energy Policy and Economics Series, February 2008, ISBN: 978-0-08-047172-3

  • Correljé, A.F., Van der Linde, J.G. “Energy supply security and Geopolitics: A European perspective”, Energy Policy, 34(2006) 532-543.

  • Fattouh, B. , van der Linde, C. (2011) The International Energy Forum, Twenty years of producer-consumer dialogue in a changing world, IEF, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  • Fouquet, R. (2010) “The slow search for solutions: Lessons from historical energy transitions by sector and service”, Energy Policy 38 (2010) 6586–6596

  • Goldthau, Andreas (2011) “A Public Policy Perspective on Global Energy Security”, International Studies Perspectives (2011), 1–20.

Registration

Via uSis.
See also: registration and admission requirements for the Master EUS.

Contact information

A. F. Correljé