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In this report, produced with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Synapse Energy Economics, RAP and Community Action Partnership take an in-depth look at the disparate impacts electric and natural gas infrastructure have on economic, social, and health… View Summary +
As part of its climate and energy package, Germany has set ambitious long-term goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent, primary energy consumption 50 percent, and power consumption 25 percent by 2050. Meeting these goals will require aggressive investment… View Summary +
This paper examines five different scenarios with a range of power consumption trends and determines that a significant reduction in electricity consumption can reduce the mid- to long-term costs of the German power system—even with greater use of renewable energy. View Summary +
Discussions in Germany over the future of feed-in-tariffs (FiTs) for renewables are in full force. One of the market support designs under considerable debate is the so-called “Market Premium” FiT, which Germany put in place at the beginning of 2012… View Summary +
The debate in Europe over the need for ‘traditional’ quantity-based capacity market designs to provide investment is now—appropriately– evolving into discussions over how to reward capacity with sufficient flexibility to reliably operate power systems with rapidly growing shares of variable… View Summary +
Diese Publikation ist in wesentlichen Teilen eine Übersetzung des in den Proceedings of the 90th International Conference on the European Energy Market veröffentlichten Titels „Beyond Capacity Markets—Delivering Capability Resources to Europe’s Decarbonised Power System“ von Meg Gottstein und Simon Skillings… View Summary +
The RAP paper “Beyond Capacity Markets” released April 2012 discussed reasons why, in power systems with large shares of variable renewable production, existing capacity market models may no longer be up to their intended task of driving the investments required… View Summary +
At the request of policy advisors within the German government, RAP Europe summarizes the lessons learned from the “forward” capacity markets implemented to date. The paper draws from these lessons key market design observations for Germany, as it proceeds to… View Summary +
Delivering a reliable power supply to consumers has always been a central objective of market design and various solutions to this challenge have been adopted in Europe and elsewhere. In the context of wholesale power markets, these solutions have generally… View Summary +
The efficient delivery of Europe’s longer term decarbonisation goals will require substantial levels of investment in the inter-regional transmission grid by 2020, on the order of €140 to €200 billion according to recent studies. Securing these investments, which are necessary… View Summary +
There is growing interest in electricity market reforms that can tap the potential of dispatchable demand response to balance an increasing percentage of renewables in the power system. In the two “forward” capacity markets in the US, dispatchable demand response… View Summary +
RAP has developed and presented to regulators, member states and stakeholders an overview of the key elements of European electricity market integration in Europe and how decisions in the various areas of integration may act either to advance–or interfere with–Europe’s… View Summary +
RAP has developed and presented to regulators, member states and stakeholders an overview of the key elements of European electricity market integration in Europe and how decisions in the various areas of integration may act either to advance–or interfere with–Europe’s… View Summary +
This policy paper explains auction-based forward capacity markets and their role in addressing resource adequacy in the power sector. Market design and complementary policies can serve to better align capacity markets with carbon reduction goals. View Summary +
This white paper evaluates emissions performance standards as a means to reduce the financial and reliability risks associated with new investments in high carbon-emitting power plants. View Summary +