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Sea breeze: Measures to ensure a collaborative and cost-efficient future for offshore wind in Europe
Given the urgency of the transition to clean energy, Europe has set its sights high. The European Union aims to halve greenhouse gas emissions in the next ten years and attain net zero by 2050. Electrification from renewable energy resources will play an important role in these decarbonisation efforts. The European Commission envisions offshore...
Get What You Need: Reclaiming Consumer-Centric Resource Adequacy
PJM and the other U.S. independent system operators/regional transmission operators have a record of delivering enormous consumer benefits in the 20-plus years since organized wholesale markets were first introduced in the United States. But the Minimum Offer Price Rule order issued by FERC in December – requiring PJM to rewrite its capacity market rules ...
Equity in the energy transition: Who pays and who benefits?
With its pending Green Deal, the European Commission is striving to make Europe the first climate-neutral region by 2050. A lot is at stake with this goal. The transition to clean energy can help mitigate climate change and bring extensive social, health and well-being benefits to all Europeans. This process, however, is not without costs, particularly in the sho...
Opzioni di riforma del mercato per un sistema energetico affidabile, efficiente e a emissioni zero in Italia
Nella recente proposta di Piano nazionale integrato per l’energia e il clima, l'Italia ha fissato degli obiettivi ambiziosi per aumentare le quote di energie rinnovabili e si è impegnata a chiudere tutte le centrali a carbone entro il 2025. In seguito a tali sviluppi, alle preoccupazioni sulla sostenibilità economica delle centrali elettriche e alla generale ...
Market reform options for a reliable, cost-efficient and decarbonised Italian power system
In its recent draft National Energy and Climate Plan, Italy set ambitious targets for increasing the share of variable renewable energy and committed to closing all coal plants by 2025. These developments, coupled with concerns about the economic viability of power plants and the ability to “keep the lights on,” resulted in the government introducing a capaci...
UK’s August 9th loss of load and wider market implications of grid transformation
Michael Hogan was invited to speak at an event organised by the Regional Centre for Energy Policy Research (REKK) in Budapest, Hungary, titled UK’s August 9 blackout: Why did it happen and what can we learn? He explained the exceptional circumstances that led to the widespread power outages in the United Kingdom in August and placed the lessons learned in the g...
Responsive Demand: Lessons for a Low-Carbon Transformation
In a presentation to the New Hampshire Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Energy Board in Concord, Michael Hogan explored market fundamentals and the changing role of demand response, demand response participation and compensation, and technology and retail tariff design in the transition to a decarbonized power sector....
NextGen wholesale markets: What objectives? What challenges? What solutions?
The International Energy Agency invited Michael Hogan to speak at an invitation-only workshop of its Electricity Security Advisory Panel. He highlighted the importance of flexibility, energy pricing and the role of consumers in wholesale markets to achieve fast, reliable and affordable decarbonisation of energy....
Start with smart: Promising practices for integrating electric vehicles into the grid
The electric vehicle revolution offers tremendous opportunity to benefit consumers, the power system, and the environment.