Alex Barnes

Director at Alex Barnes & Associates

Speaker

Alex Barnes is an independent consultant specialising in energy market regulation and market design. He has over thirty years’ experience in the oil and gas sector, most of it spent in the liberalisation of gas and electricity markets. He has worked for a range of blue chip companies helping them manage the impacts of energy liberalisation. He has helped draft gas market rules as an industry representative on expert panels for the European Network of Transmission Operators for Gas (ENTSOG) and the European energy market regulator ACER. Since going independent in October 2019 he has worked with several clients on a range of subjects including hydrogen market development and regulation; competition, regulation and market developments in European natural gas markets; the EU “Fit for 55” Package; carbon pricing; and regulation of methane emissions. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.