Energy policy experts and renewables industry questioned by Lords on EU energy and decarbonisation
28 November 2012
Energy policy experts and a representative of the renewable energy industry will appear before the House of Lords Agriculture, Fisheries, Environment and Energy EU Sub-Committee on Wednesday 28 November as part of their inquiry into how EU energy can be decarbonised while keeping a lid on costs and helping to boost EU jobs and growth.
- Parliament TV: EU energy: decarbonisation and economic competitiveness
- Inquiry: EU energy: decarbonisation and economic competitiveness
Witnesses
Wednesday 28 November, Committee Room 3A, Palace of Westminster
At 11.00am
- Professor Peter Cameron, Professor of International Energy Law and Policy and Director of the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, University of Dundee
At 12.00pm
- Dr Gordon Edge, Director of Policy, RenewableUK
- Dr Robert Gross, Director of the Centre for Energy Policy and Technology; Policy Director at the Energy Future Lab and Head of the UK Energy Research Council’s Technology and Policy assessment function.
The Committee will be asking Professor Cameron what legal barriers exist to improving interconnection between Member States and how these may be overcome; whether lessons can be learnt in the UK from other EU countries, such as Germany, which has made a clear commitment to moving from nuclear to renewable energy and what his views are on how further eastern enlargement of the EU will impact on EU energy policy.
The witnesses are likely to face questions on issues including whether the Emissions Trading System (ETS) could deliver a significant contribution to boosting renewable energy; the impact on energy pricing of increasing globalisation; what form any policy and financial incentives for renewable energy should take and what will happen to the EU’s long term climate goals if action is not taken now to boost renewable energy.