Handbook of Energy Economics and Policy

Alessandro Rubino is Lecturer in Economics at Bari University. Alessandro's research interests are in the fields of regulation, industrial organisation, energy market integration and demand side participation. He has been junior expert in the EC founded project "Paving the Way for the Mediterranean Solar Plan" and coordinator of the International Energy Regulation Network (IERN). From July 2012 to January 2014 Alessandro has been head of Capacity building and knowledge dissemination at the Enel Foundation.

Alessandro Sapio is Associate Professor of Economic Policy at the Parthenope University of Naples and serves as Associate Editor of Economia Politica – Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics. His research interests include, since his PhD dissertation in 2005, empirical analysis of wholesale electricity markets, focusing on the impact of renewables and market integration on prices. On these topics, he has published in main scholarly journals in the field, such as Energy Policy, Energy Economics, Ecological Economics, and has guest co-edited a special issue of Energy Policy on “The regional integration on energy markets”. Dr. Sapio is a member of FP7 project Impressions – Impacts and risks from high-end scenarios on climate policy — and has collaborated with research consultancy companies, such as Ricerche per l'Economia e la Finanza. He also contributes to the portal RiEnergia with comments on energy policy.

Massimo La Scala is full Professor of Electrical Energy Systems at Politecnico di Bari, Italy, and Director of the Laboratory for the development of renewables and energy efficiency in urban areas: Progetto ZERO (Zero Emission Research Option). In 2007, he received the IEEE Fellowship with the citation of his “contributions to the development of computationally efficient power system dynamic performance simulation and control methodologies”. He has been a consultant for many agencies involved in the energy business and regulators, such as the Italian Energy Authority (AEEG), in the committee of national experts for the evaluation of pilot projects in smart grids, Cassa per i Servizi Energetici e Ambientali (CSEA), reviewing Projects under financial support by the Italian Ministry of the Industr, the Lithuanian National Control Commission for Prices and Energy, and the Energy Market Regulatory Authority in Turkey. Professor La Scala has also been principal investigator in several projects in power system analysis and control, smart grids, smart cities, and energy efficiency.

Michelle Hallack holds a PhD from the University of Paris Sud XI of Economics, as well as a M.Res from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, an European Master Diploma (EMIN) and a Diploma in Economics Sciences of the State University of Campinas. Dr. Hallack’s current and past working experiences and research interest focus on the economics regulation, with a particular interest on the Energy Sector. Currently, her lectures cover microeconomics, institutional economics, regulatory economics and energy economics. She has lectured and coordinated projects for professional training in natural gas regulation in different continents, including Europe, South America and Asia. She has also done research and consulting, for more than a decade, in the energy field. Currently, she is Energy Policy Adviser at Florence School of Regulation and Adjunct Professor in the Economic Department at Federal Fluminense University in Rio de Janeiro.