Het ligt in onze menselijke aard te zoeken naar bevestiging van voorafnames. Dat was in de eerste reacties op de blackouts door de winterstorm in Texas niet anders. Ook in België, waar de politieke zenuwen gespannen staan door de nakende kernuitstap en een capaciteitsubsidie nodig lijkt om elektriciteit in de winter te garanderen. Nu betrouwbare…
Othello: “But this denoted a foregone conclusion.” Iago: “Tis a shrewd doubt, though it be but a dream And this may help to thicken other proofs That do demonstrate thinly.” Othello, Act 3, Scene 3 Shakespeare’s tragedy centers on the theme…
Offshore wind is a special resource. The fact that there is little legacy infrastructure, coupled with the impressive European ambition of expanding the current capacity of 12 GW to 300 GW by 2050, raises an important question: How can we develop only the minimum infrastructure needed, at lowest cost, and operate it to the maximum…
ERCOT (or the Electricity Reliability Council of Texas, the independent system operator of that state’s stand-alone wholesale market) has confounded the doomsayers once again. Despite dire predictions that ERCOT lacked sufficient generation capacity, it came through the peak summer season of 2019 without any firm load curtailments, despite a hotter-than-normal summer and notching a new…
In November 2018, the EU General Court ruled in favour of a legal challenge mounted by Tempus Energy to the Directorate General for Competition’s (DG COMP) approval of the capacity market in Great Britain. In its challenge, Tempus successfully argued that, due to serious flaws in the design of the capacity market, DG COMP should…
Following the decision of the General Court of the European Union in November last year to annul the capacity market in Great Britain, the European Commission has now embarked on a detailed formal investigation of the market’s design. The Court’s decision no doubt caused the Commission some embarrassment. However, a positive outcome of the annulment…
Energy-only markets will enable the integration of the European electricity market and development of the flexible resources needed to support a decarbonised future. Philip Baker and Michael Hogan offer a critique to RTE’s impact assessment of the French capacity market. Energy-only markets (EoM) are the building blocks of Europe’s integrated electricity market. Not only do…
Die Stromverteilnetze in Europa arbeiten weit unter ihrem vollen Potenzial. Das Laden von Elektrofahrzeugen kann deshalb weitestgehend ohne zusätzlichen Netzausbau erfolgen, hat das Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) in einer Kurzanalyse festgestellt. „Intelligente Preisgestaltung und smarte Technologien sind die Schlüssel dafür“, schreiben Mike Hogan und Andreas Jahn vom RAP. „Meine Mittel will ich so verwalten, dass…
Electricity distribution networks in Europe run at well below their full potential, finds a new study from the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP). The findings show that the unused network capacity could be utilised for charging electric vehicles with little or no need for additional capacity. Smart pricing and smart grid technologies will be the keys….