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Speaker: Dr Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui (University of Bergen)
Admission FREE, no booking required.
Abstract: The liberalisation of energy markets has been pursued across the as this would allegedly lead to more competitive and efficient markets. However, energy markets are characterised by the fact that they are – at least partially and in particular regarding transmission of energy – natural monopolies. As transmission is a necessary element for energy to reach its consumers, owners of transmission lines and pipes have been required to grant third party access to their competitors. In this talk I discuss what are the models employed for third party access in the US and Europe and discuss what the future of transport of energy might look like.
Speaker's bio: I am a Researcher at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bergen, and member of the Bergen Center for Competition Law & Economics. My research interests are connected with the regulation of markets as I work on the interface of competition, public procurement and energy law.
I obtained my PhD from the University of Bergen with a thesis entitled "Buyer Power in EU Competition Law" (2012-2017), financed by the Norwegian Research Council.
My PhD dissertation won the prestigious “2017 Concurrences PhD Award” to the best PhD dissertation in the field of competition law or economics of the year, awarded by Concurrences. In addition to the award, the thesis has been published by Concurrences as a monograph and it is available here.
Currently, I am working on a research project financed by Statoil through the AkademiaAvtalen entitled "Regulating energy markets, a perspective from EEA/EU Competition and Public Procurement Law" (2017-2019). As part of this research project I have been awarded the prestigious International Scholar-in-Residence scholarship by the American Bar Association, which allowed me visit the US for a period of almost four months and carry our research in the comparative regulation of transmission unbundling infrastructures in electricity markets while being a visiting researcher at Georgetown Law Center, D.C., and the School of Law of the University of Wisconsin.
If you are interested in some of my work, please visit my SSRN site.
- Speaker
- Dr Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui
- Hosted by
- Aberdeen Centre for Energy Law
- Venue
- Taylor A19
- Contact
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Dr Daria Shapovalova
Lecturer, School of Law
Tel: +44 (0) 1224 272430
Email: dshapovalova@abdn.ac.uk
