Express: Energy: UK taxpayers deserve an accounting of Liz Truss’s prize freeze, experts assert.
Cambridge Judge Business School is featured in this Express article about the Energy Price Guarantee. It focuses on a new paper by the Energy Policy Research Group at CJBS ( co-authored by Michael Pollitt and David Reiner) which says taxpayers…
No ‘blank cheque’ for Energy Price Guarantee outlays, says Cambridge paper
British taxpayers ‘deserve an accounting’ of energy cap spending including whether it stimulates long-term UK energy investment, says new paper from Energy Policy Research Group at Cambridge Judge Business School. UK taxpayers deserve an accounting of who benefits from the…
Public or private energy?
Renationalisation is not the solution to the current supply and pricing issues in the energy market, Professor Michael Pollitt of Cambridge Judge Business School says in a new podcast. Renationalisation of the energy industry is "not an obvious solution" to…
Experts on developing a sustainable future at Cambridge Judge Business School
Our faculty and leaders at Cambridge Judge Business School can offer expert opinion on developing a sustainable future. Please note: If you would like to contact any of these faculty members, please email [email protected] Climate and the economy Kamiar Mohaddes,…
Flexible energy markets
How can regulators better support the trend toward intermittent renewable energy connected to lower voltage distribution networks in order to prevent network overload? Regulatory changes so far vary widely, finds a new paper from Cambridge Judge Business School. Professor Michael…
Energy Monitor: Why state control of the UK power system can help drive the energy transition
Michael Pollitt, Professor of Business Economics at Cambridge Judge Business School, discusses future electricity system operation model in the UK. “A private model would be an experiment and it is difficult to think of how the performance contract would work…
Financial Times: Picking up the bill for Europe’s carbon
Michael Pollitt, Professor of Business Economics at Cambridge Judge Business School, comments on EU decarbonisation policy. “We are reaching the point where the costs of decarbonisation cannot be hidden. The reason many are concerned about the ETS is that it…
The Telegraph: Green energy drive puts Britain’s resilience in doubt
Michael Pollitt, Professor of Business Economics at Cambridge Judge Business School, comments on UK’s green energy supply. “We need more interconnection with the rest of Europe,” says Professor Pollitt. “We have a fairly isolated grid but we are building more…
New Europe: Europe must decarbonise three times faster to achieve net zero emissions by 2050
Cambridge Judge’s Professor Michael Pollitt and Dr Chi Kong Chyong comment on Europe’s decarbonisation policy. “We have remodelled the European Commission’s 1.5 TECH and COMBO scenarios and took them further with two additional, extreme cases. Our conclusion is straightforward: European…
Montel: Critics scorn proposals to extend ETS to heating, transport
Michael Pollitt, Professor of Business Economics at Cambridge Judge Business School, comments on carbon trading emission scheme. “The key aspect of an emissions trading scheme is the quantity limitation – it’s not the same as a common carbon tax,” he…