2015 will be a pivotal year for energy policy with a General Election in which Labour is set to promise a 20 month freeze of domestic energy prices and the replacement of Ofgem by a more powerful regulator, while the Competition and Markets Authority should complete its investigation of the energy supply market. Electricity Market Reform is now enacted, but substantial uncertainties remain about almost all aspects of its implementation. This lecture will analyse the options open to the new Government and propose a new direction for energy policy.

Dieter Helm Professor of Energy Policy University of Oxford

Sara Vaughan Director of Regulation and Energy Policy E.ON UK

Keith MacLean Chair Energy Research Partnership