The Florence School of Regulation provides policy workshops, training, and advisory services related to energy regulation. Over the past decade, it has hosted over 100 policy workshops attended by over 1,000 regulators, policymakers, and industry representatives. It also provides webinars, online courses, and contributes to an online energy regulation encyclopedia. Recently, the school has advised the European Commission Directorate-General for Energy on reports regarding renewable energy, energy infrastructure, and the transition to a low-carbon economy by 2050. It also advises the Council of European Energy Regulators on issues like the gas target model and electricity and gas transmission tarification. The school aims to contribute to the debate around developing the architecture of EU energy security and

1. Florence School of Regulation:
what’s behind, what’s ahead?
Prof. Jean-Michel Glachant
Director

2. Anchors of the past:
The model in practice since 2004
• About a hundred policy workshops on energy
regulatory topics since 2004, many in close
collaboration with CEER
• About a thousand participants in our training, from
regulatory bodies, European Institutions and energy
companies
• Support of international networks of regulators
(coordinating IERN, Secretariat of ICER, support of
MedReg)

3. Basic Activities since 2010
• Policy events: Energy Efficiency (2011, Alberto Pototschnig, CEER);
TPA and unbundling exemptions (2011, Alberto Pototschnig, CEER);
European Regulation (for Californian Regulators);
EU-Russia Energy infrastructure (Russian Regulators)
• Training: Annual Training; Summer Schools; Training for Algerian
Regulators, MedReg Annual Training, Training Brazilian Regulators
Participants in 2011 by
organisational affiliation:

4. Novelties since 2010
Advanced Training courses (Gas)
High-level Executive Seminars (Incentive Regulation
and Renewable Energy)
Webinars (Introductory and Advanced)
Online Encyclopdedia
Advising DG Energy: THINK
Advising Regulators on Gas Target Model MECOS

5. Webinars
Webinars are one-hour online
seminars provided by high-level
speakers on current energy issues.
Accessible from all around the world
through a regular internet connection
in real-time mode.
Online Encyclopedia of
Energy Regulation
Faculty contributing to more than 50 key terms of the
energy world, to be launched in autumn 2012

6. THINK: Advising DG Energy
FINISHED REPORTS UPCOMING TOPICS
1. Public Support for the Financing of RD&D 7. How to refurbish all buildings by 2050
Activities in New Clean Energy
Technologies 8. Electricity storage
2. Smart Cities Initiative 9. EU technology policy towards 2050
3. Transition Towards a Low Carbon Energy 10. Cost-benefit analysis for identification of
System by 2050: What Role for the EU? Projects of Common Interest for electricity
4. The Impact of Climate and Energy Policies 11. Active demand side
on the Public Budget of EU Member
States management
5. Offshore Grids: Towards a Least Regret 12 EU involvement in the
EU Policy institutional organization of
6. EU Involvement In Electricity and Natural distribution network tasks
Gas Transmission Grid Tarification
In gas and electricity

7. Advising CEER: The Gas Target Model:
MECOS
HERE IMAGE OF WEBINAR OF YOU
TALKING WILL BE ADDED

8. The School’s input into the debate of
energy regulation
A New Architecture for EU
Gas Security of Supply
Written by J-M. Glachant, M.
Hafner, J. De Jong, N. Ahner, S.
Tagliapietra IMAGE WILL BE
ADDED

9. Thank you very much for your attention
Jean-Michel.Glachant@eui.eu
Director Florence School of Regulation
Editor-in-Chief Economics of Energy and
Environmental Policy (EEEP)