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Natural gas markets face a turmoil, due to short term shocks like the COVID pandemic, but more importantly to long term changes of the energy policy agenda, that is shifting towards decarbonization. How to set infrastructure tariffs and redistribute social benefits and costs in a national system and in a cross-border setting?

The course will provide participants with an overview of the fundamental policy objectives and the policy measures available to achieve these objectives. The course will guide you through the steps of natural gas infrastructure tariff and end user price setting in theory and in practice. It does so through an instructor-led collaborative e-learning platform that features a combination of real-time interactive presentations, Excel modelling exercises, online tutoring at pre-announced times, reading material related to the course modules and weekly exercises coupled with homework assignments. The course will last a total of 4 weeks.

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What you will learn in 4 weeks:

• • • best of classical network industry regulation applied for the gas markets
    • the main components of the allowed revenues under the building block approach
    • different capacity allocation mechanisms, capacity products and their pricing
    • the principles and practical use of tariff setting methodologies for gas transmission infrastructure
    • a bucket of lessons learnt by others on various regulatory tools, so you do not have to learn by your own mistakes

You will return back to work with:

• • ability to calculate gas network tariffs and end user price if applicable in your country
  • knowlegde about the capacity allocation methods, principles and how to choose between them
  • ability to allocate cost to the network points
  • ability to and calculate the reserve price and do the adjustments
  • the ability to design regulatory monitoring and benchmarking of the regulated utilities