Cross-Border Cost Allocation for Electricity Transmission Networks

Professor Bert Willems, is a CERRE Research Fellow and a Professor of Economics at the Université catholique de Louvain where he studies and teaches energy management and environmental economics. He is affiliated with the Law and Economic Center at Tilburg University (TILEC), the Toulouse School of Economics and a board member of the Benelux Association for Energy Economics (BAEE).

Christine is an Assistant Professor with the Copenhagen School of Energy Infrastructure (CSEI) at Copenhagen Business School. She is currently also a visiting fellow with the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and a research associate with the Energy Policy and Regulation Group at the University of Cambridge. Her main research interest is in network regulation, pricing and market design. In her research, she analyses the interactions of different regulatory, market design and policy options in energy systems. Thus, she has participated in and led several research projects on flexible network users, smart grids and the integration of renewable energy sources into the energy systems.

She obtained her PhD in Energy Economics from Jacobs University Bremen and holds Master’s degrees from Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan in Stockholm, École des Mines in Nantes and Universidad Politécnica in Madrid as a result of the Erasmus Mundus joint Master course in Management and Engineering of Environment and Energy.

Chloé Le Coq is Professor of Economics at Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas (CRED) and Research Fellow at the Stockholm School of Economics (SITE). She is a Member of the Scientific Advisory Board DIW Berlin and a Member of the Scientific Committee Chair ETI LAB -Mines Paris (since 2022). She is involved in the university incubator AssasLab. She has held visiting positions at Purdue University, the University of California Energy Institute at Berkeley, and the National University of Singapore.

Her research investigates topics related to antitrust policy, industrial organization, and behavioral economics, with a particular focus on energy markets and social innovation. Her recent work includes empirical studies on cartel formation, information structure in electricity markets, and experimental studies of social entrepreneurs.

Floor Serrien is a Doctoral Candidate in Engineering at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and in Economics at the Université Catholique de Louvain. She holds a MSc in Energy Engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Her work focuses on the regulatory challenges of the offshore transmission grid expansion, with a focus on incentivising cross-border collaboration and ensuring a fair allocation of costs and benefits among stakeholders.