Course overview
Energy and utility regulation determines how electricity, gas, water and district energy providers recover costs, set tariffs, connect customers, procure capacity and meet public-service obligations. The energy transition makes these decisions more difficult: renewable generation changes network flows, electrification increases demand, distributed resources challenge traditional tariff structures, and governments must balance affordability, reliability, investment incentives and decarbonisation. Professionals need to interpret regulatory rules and turn them into defensible business, policy and investment decisions.
This course examines the core institutions, legal instruments and economic methods used to regulate energy and utility markets. Participants work with cost-of-service regulation, price-cap models, tariff design, regulatory asset bases, allowed returns, integrated resource planning, connection rules, renewable support mechanisms and consumer protection requirements. They assess how regulators review utility submissions, how operators prepare evidence, and how policy choices affect customers, investors, networks and independent power producers.
Teaching combines concise technical briefings with utility rate cases, renewable procurement scenarios, network investment decisions and regulatory consultation reviews. Participants progressively build a regulation and tariff analysis for a realistic utility or energy-transition project, using templates introduced during the first week. They leave with a structured regulatory assessment, a tariff-design model, a stakeholder engagement plan and a board-ready regulatory submission outline.
The course suits professionals who work with regulated utilities, energy ministries, regulators, infrastructure investors, renewable developers and major energy users. It is applicable across jurisdictions while distinguishing principles that transfer internationally from rules that depend on local legislation and regulator practice.
