2025 Energy and Climate Economics and Business Days

The conference starts on Tuesday afternoon, March 25, and ends Wednesday March 26 at the end of the afternoon. A conference dinner is plannend for March 25.

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 will 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 academic keynote speaker in the plenary session on the dynamics of energy systems is 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 discussants will be announced as soon as possible.

In addition to the plenary sessions, there will be parallel sessions, in which participants can present and discuss their work. In between and after the sessions there will be plenty of time for networking.

Conference sessions will take place at the Faculty of Economics and Business, Duisenberg Building at the University of Groningen’s Zernike Campus.

Registration fee for both days, including drinks, lunch, and dinner, is 75 euros.

The scientific committee in charge of organizing the sessions and reviewing submissions is composed of faculty members from the University of Groningen Faculty of Economics and Business.

The members of this committee are:

Dr. Thijs Broekhuizen
Prof. dr. Marco Haan
Dr. Pim Heijnen
Dr. Roweno Heijmans
Dr. Michaela Kesina
Prof. dr. Machiel Mulder
Prof. dr. Bert Scholtens
Prof. dr. Ward Romeijnders
Dr. Arpan Rijal
Prof. dr. Evrim Ursavas

The organizers are prof. dr. Machiel Mulder, prof. dr. Evrim Ursavas, dr. Roweno J.R.K. Heijmans, and dr. Arpan Rijal, supported by Selma Bakker from the University of Groningen Business School. For practical questions, you may reach out to Selma Bakker (s.m.bakker@rug.nl).