A by no means exhaustive list of topics:

Competition and Investment in Electricity Markets

• Competition in wholesale, retail, and balancing markets
• Power market design, capacity markets, and competition policy
• Investment in power generation and demand side management

Infrastructure and Regulation

• Regulatory framework and incentives
• Investments in energy infrastructures
• Reliability and security of energy supply
• Integration of European power markets

Sustainable Energy Transistion

• Instruments to achieve environmental policy goals
• Transition costs and financing of the energy transition

Energy Demand, Energy Efficiency, and Employment

• "Energy poverty" and distributional aspects of energy policies
• Modelling issues and sectoral analysis of energy demand
• Challenges of energy efficiency
• Energy economics and employment

Energy Innovation

• Technological and organisational innovation in the sector of energy equipment, production, and distribution
• Adoption and diffusion of energy innovations
• Role of intellectual property rights

Special Practitioners' Session

• Current issues of energy policy
• Challenges faced by firms in the energy market

• Christophe Gence-Creux (ACER, EU)
• Ali Hortaçsu (University of Chicago, US)
• Nils-Henrik von der Fehr (University of Oslo, NO)
• Mar Reguant (Northwestern University, US)

• Christoph Böhringer (University of Oldenburg)
• Natalia Fabra (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
• Gautam Gowrisankaran (University of Arizona)
• Luigi Grossi (University of Verona)
• Andreas Lange (University of Hamburg)
• Andreas Löschel (University of Münster)
• Reinhard Madlener (RWTH Aachen)
• Philipp Schmidt-Dengler (University of Vienna)
• Ulrich Wagner (University of Mannheim)
• Frank Wolak (Stanford University)
• Michael Waterson (Warwick University)
• Christoph Weber (University of Duisburg-Essen)

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Interested researchers are invited to submit a paper or an extended abstract of at least three pages. Interested practitioners should submit a one-page abstract. Submissions should be sent in PDF format to energy2016@zew.de no later than February 7, 2016.

• Online Registration for Attendants/Non-Presenters

Submission Deadline: February 7, 2016
Notifications of Acceptance: March 4, 2016
Registration: April 1, 2016

The conference fee is EUR 180. This covers the conference package, meals, refreshments, coffee breaks, and the conference dinner. The conference fee will be reduced for participants presenting a paper. In addition, ZEW will offer a limited number of grants for travel and accommodation. Please indicate in your submission if you wish to apply for a grant and contact the organising committee for further information. Presenters may be asked to discuss a paper. Authors are asked to send their papers to the discussant at least two weeks before the start of the conference.