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SESSA: Sustainable Energy Specific Support Assessment, for European Commission, DG RDT

SESSA consists in creating and managing a scientific energy technology regulation forum. It aims at contributing to an economically feasible, socially acceptable and environmentally friendly electricity policy in the EU. SESSA involves high-level decision-makers. Committed decision-makers contributing to the forum (40 in total, from 13 countries including 2 New Member States) include 9 regulatory authorities, 7 transmission system operators, 9 large European energy companies, 12 users groups and non governmental associations, SESSA groups more than 20 first-ranked scholars from 14 countries (9 participants and 13 external experts) who are also experienced with policy assessment and expertise. To nurture the forum, the leading SESSA research institutions will address the following issues: (i) refining market design, especially for power and transmission, as for renewable; (ii) addressing market power and industry restructuring for the European consumers benefits; (iii) ensuring success of EU electricity enlargement to New Member States; (iv) harmonizing effective regulation, in particular concerning demand side management, incentives for renewable energies and cross-border exchanges; and (v) investing for sustainability, especially in terms of RTD programs, energy efficiency, distributed generation and security of supply. For all those issues, SESSA will benchmark national experiences, will identify best practices in EU and abroad and will draw guidelines for their implementation. In doing so, SESSA will deliver a contribution to the 2006 special review on electricity liberalization as decided in the Copenhagen summit.

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Partners
  • University of Hull 
  • Cambridge University
  • Stockholm School of Economics
  • DIW
  • Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
  • University Pontificia Comillas
  • University Bocconi
  • University of Leuven – Louvain
  • E3M-Lab, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems