Professor Jonathan Stern, EU energy: decarbonisation and economic competitiveness, EU energy, European Investment Bank
Gas and EU Energy Investment experts appear before Lords
12 December 2012
The Lords Agriculture, Fisheries, Environment and Energy EU Sub-Committee will be speaking to experts from the gas and energy investment sectors on Wednesday 12 December in the seventh evidence session of their inquiry into EU energy and growth.
- Parliament TV: EU energy: decarbonisation and economic competitiveness
- Inquiry: EU energy: decarbonisation and economic competitiveness
Witnesses
Wednesday 12 December, Committee Room 1, Palace of Westminster
At 11am
- Professor Jonathan Stern, Chairman and Senior Research Fellow, Natural Gas Research Programme, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
At 12pm (via video-link)
- Simon Brooks, CB, Vice President for the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland;
- Nicholas Jennett, Director, New Products and Special Transactions Department; and
- Cheryl Fisher, Director of Energy, Projects Directorate.
The witnesses from the Bank are likely to face questions on:
- the criteria for offering investment to energy-related projects and whether the Bank invests in new coal plants;
- whether investment in the energy sector has increased over the last decade and how they see it evolving over the next;
- the Risk-Sharing Finance Facility the bank uses to provide finance for research, development and innovation;
- the impact on investment in renewable energy of the increasing interest in shale gas; and
- their views on how far investment in energy infrastructure has economic impacts for growth.