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Episode: OIES Podcast – The complex challenge of coordination in liberalised and carbon-constrained energy systems
Description: In this latest OIES podcast from the Electricity Programme, Anders Hove talks to Dimitra Apostolopoulou about her latest paper co-authored with Rahmat Poudineh titled "The complex challenge of coordination in liberalised and carbon-constrained energy systems". The discussion highlights how the growing number of actors—from large transmission operators to prosumers with solar panels—and interdependencies between sectors make coordination, particularly under the demanding goals of decarbonisation, challenging. They discuss how coordination frictions arise from misaligned incentives, incomplete information, and market timing mismatches, as well as structural forces, such as digitalisation, extreme weather and cybersecurity. They explain why, given the comp...