Their thoughts on the past, present and future are inspired by the 2024 GB Party manifestos. The paper is available here

The slides are available here

Sukhgeet Kaur Michael G. Pollitt Output vs Input subsidies in agriculture: a discrete choice experiment to estimate farmers’ preferences for rice and electricity subsidies in Punjab Abstract | Non-Technical Summary | Text

Sukhgeet Kaur Michael G. Pollitt Using rewards and penalties to incentivize energy and water saving behaviour in agriculture – Evidence from a choice experiment in Punjab Abstract | Non-Technical Summary | Text

Sukhgeet Kaur Michael G. Pollitt Farmers preferences for incentives on solar pumps: Evidence from a choice experiment in Punjab Abstract | Non-Technical Summary | Text

The article Marginal curtailment of wind and solar PV: Transmission constraints, pricing and access regimes for efficient investment can be accessed here

You can read his response, The future of domestic price protection, here

PROGRAMME 16 May 2024 Hugh Hunt (Cambridge Zero) gave a keynote speech “No 1.5C without intervention – can we freeze the Artic?” 17 May 2024 SESSION 1 – ELECTRICITY MARKET DESIGN Chair: Robert Ritz (EPRG) Peter Cramton (University of Maryland) Jason Mann (FTI Consulting) Rachel Fletcher (Octopus Energy) SESSION 2 – EUROPEAN ENERGY & CLIMATE POLICY Chair: Dermot Nolan (EPRG) Fabien Roques (Compass Lexecon) Michael Pollitt (EPRG) Miguel Gil Tertre (European Commission, DG Ener) Theresa Chambers (UK Department for Energy Security & Net Zero) SESSION 3 – HYDROGEN & SUPERGIRD INFRASTRUCTURE Chair: David Reiner (EPRG) Arthur Downing (Octopus Energy) Martina Lindovska (FTI Consulting) Svetlana Ikonnikova (Technical University Munich) SESSION 4 – NETWORKS OF THE FUTURE Chair: Michael Pollitt (EPRG) Akshay Kaul (Ofgem) Joe Perkins (Compass Lexecon) Sotiris Georgiopoulos (UK Power Networks) Concluding word – David Newbery (EPRG)

It is with great sadness that we must share the news that our longtime EPRG Associate Researcher and dear friend and colleague Prof Ross Anderson, FRS, FRSE, FREng, Professor of Security Engineering in the Department of Computer Science and Technology passed away on 27 March. Ross was a longtime advocate of academic freedom and digital rights and a founder of the field of security engineering (what others refer to as cybersecurity). His book on the subject Security Engineering (the 3rd edition was published in 2020) is the standard text on the subject. Although only a small part of his many interests, he did work on a range of topics related to energy and sustainability, and was a regular attendee at our conferences, gave a salutary talk on cyber hacking generation equipment and was a passionate (and prophetic) critic of the failings of the UK smart meter rollout. Apart from his love of bagpipes, he had a passion for policy and governance at both the university level and at the national level and he always made his case in clear, impassioned and heartfelt terms. We will miss him very much and we extend our condolences to Ross’ wife, family and his many friends. A longer obituary written by a close colleague for Communications of the ACM can be found here:

Haotian Tang, David M. Reiner, Wenying Chen Assessing China’s green hydrogen supply and end-use diffusion in hard-to-abate industries Abstract | Non-Technical Summary | Text