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April 4, 2024
A New Chapter of Growth for RAP
- Regulatory Assistance Project
The Regulatory Assistance Project is beginning a new chapter of growth and thought leadership as we continue bringing clarity to the complexity of the clean energy transition. After thoughtful discussions between Richard Sedano and the RAP board of directors, Sedano… View Summary +
March 17, 2021
Drama aus dem wahren Leben: Lernen aus einer texanischen Tragödie
- Michael Hogan ,
- Andreas Jahn ,
- Christian Redl ,
- Philipp Litz
Die Ereignisse am Strommarkt in Texas im Februar 2021 waren ein traumatisches Ereignis. Jedoch kann man eine Wiederholung verhindern, wenn man die Ursachen kennt. Wir wollen die wichtigsten Aspekte hervorheben. So führten die Winterstürme zu Bedingungen, die möglicherweise seit 100… View Summary +
February 26, 2021
Brussels, Texas – lessen uit de winter black-out
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… View Summary +
February 26, 2021
Real-life drama: Learning from a Texas tragedy
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 … View Summary +
December 12, 2020
Offshore wind should be seen as a joint European resource
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… View Summary +
October 23, 2019
A Hearty Bowl of Texas Soup: How ERCOT Keeps the Lights On
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… View Summary +
October 23, 2019
UK capacity market déjà vu: A solution that’s still in search of a problem
- Philip Baker ,
- Michael Hogan
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… View Summary +
August 8, 2019
美国电力监管点评 — 当各州监管权遇到跨区电力市场:界线在哪?
原则上,美国跨州电力批发市场由联邦能源监管委员会(FERC)监管,而电力零售市场由各州监管。各州监管权界限问题也历经漫长而动荡的过程。随着电力批发市场的演化,虽然州权力的争执对有组织的批发电力市场构不成重大影响,但州权与电力批发市场监管的界线却偶有争议。最近在美国国内,有关区域输电组织(RTO)覆盖地区的州政府权利问题上的相关讨论变得相当活跃。最近引起争议的是最高法院的一项裁决。 去年,美国一家化石燃料发电企业对纽约和伊利诺伊州州对核电进行补贴的合法性提出质疑,当地法院维持了补贴的合法性(详见文末“背景”)。企业向联邦法院申诉请求重审下级法院的裁决。2019年4月,美国联邦最高法院驳回其请求,这既是关于支持核电补贴的终裁,也维护了参与跨区批发电力市场的各州在制定发电政策时的管辖范围。… View Summary +
April 17, 2019
Walking the walk on capacity mechanisms
- Philip Baker ,
- Michael Hogan
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… View Summary +
December 26, 2018
Energy markets will deliver the flexible, decarbonised power system that we need, not capacity markets
- Michael Hogan ,
- Philip Baker
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. View Summary +
July 18, 2018
Elektromobilität – ein Mehrwert für die Stromnetze
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“,… View Summary +