The Centre of Energy Business and Economics Research (CEnBER) of the UG’s Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) and the University of Groningen Business School (UGBS) are pleased to announce the 2025 Energy and Climate Economics and Business Days on 25 and 26 March 2025. Leading experts, interested practitioners, PhD candidates, alumni of both FEB and UGBS, and researchers at all career levels will present and discuss innovative research on energy transition and climate policy in an economic or business context.

Sessions and speakers

There will be two plenary sessions, one focused on the economics of climate policy and the other on business aspects of energy transition. Both plenary sessions have an academic keynote speaker and a discussant from government or business, followed by a plenary discussion.

The academic keynote speaker in the plenary session on climate policy is prof. dr. Grischa Perino, Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Hamburg. His presentation will be on the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and the interaction with overlapping climate regulation, combined with some reflections on the EU ETS 2. The disscussant in this session will be Dr. Johannes Bollen, senior economist at TNO Vector.

The academic keynote speaker in the plenary session on the dynamics of energy systems is prof. dr. Asgeir Tomasgard, professor of operations research at the Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The discussant in this session will be Harry Eshuis, business developer hydrogen Gasunie.

In addition to the plenary sessions, there will be parallel sessions, in which participants can present and discuss their work.

Panel session on Dutch policies for households in the energy transition

One of the parallel sessions will be a panel discussion. The topic of this panel session is "Beleid voor huishoudens in de energietransitie". This session will be in Dutch.

The panel members will be:

• Laetitia Ouillet, projectleider Energie en Klimaat gemeente Schiedam | associate partner eRisk group

• Marcel Timmer, onderdirecteur Centraal Planbureau | professor of Economic Growth and Development
• Joris Thijssen, lid van de Tweede Kamer namens Groenlinks-PvdA

The moderators of this panel session are Peter Mulder (TNO) and Vincent Schippers (CPB).

Registration and conference programme

Please register for the conference via the registration form. 

More details about the conference programme can be found on the conference page.

Questions?

For practical questions, you may reach out to Selma Bakker from the University of Groningen Business School (s.m.bakker@rug.nl).