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Policy Brief July 5, 2016

Can We Trust Electricity Prices? The Case for Improving the Quality of Europe’s Market Monitoring

By Sarah Keay-Bright

Market monitoring provides continuous surveillance and evaluation, like a protective screen or filter, crucial for well-informed decision making, cost efficiency, and ensuring stakeholder confidence in markets and resulting prices. In this policy brief, RAP identifies best practices that could be useful for the EU.

Market Design, Power Markets and Reliability, Reliability, Role of Utilities Download View Summary
Presentation May 31, 2016

Can We Trust in Electricity Markets?

By Sarah Keay-Bright, Joseph Bowring

Wholesale electricity prices that reflect scarcity and surplus are pivotal to advancing demand response and storage and, as such, are a means to achieving a cost-effective transition to reliable, sustainable, and affordable energy. However, Europe’s power stakeholders cannot rely on wholesale prices reflecting system conditions—such as scarcity—in real time...

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Can We Trust in Electricity Markets? (Webinar)

If the video is not visible, please accept all cookies to enable the player. Wholesale electricity prices that reflect scarcity and surplus are pivotal to advancing demand response and storage and, as such, are a means to achieving a cost-effective transition to reliable, sustainable, and affordable energy. However, Europe’s power stakeholders cannot rely on wholesale...

Report April 20, 2016

Electric Cars, the Smart Grid, and the Energy Union: Coordinating Vehicle CO2 Reduction Policy with Power Sector Modernisation

By Sarah Keay-Bright

The lack of availability of charging stations is often cited as a major barrier to electric vehicle (EV) rollout. Yet charging points are just the "tip of the iceberg"—the power system needs fundamental reforms to maximize the benefits of EV integration. The European Commission's plan to revise carbon dioxide emissions standards for light-duty vehicles (LDV) re...

Climate and Public Health, Electric Vehicles, Greenhouse Gas Management, Market Design, Power Markets and Reliability Download View Summary
Presentation March 1, 2016

Regulation to Accelerate Smart Grid Investment, Development, and Application

By Sarah Keay-Bright

Speaking at an International Energy Agency workshop about their Smart Energy Systems Roadmap, Sarah Keay-Bright explored smart goals for using the smart grid. She encourages regulators to address the long-term requirements for smart grids, implement policies that reveal the value of consumer flexibility and energy efficiency, to effectively engage consumers, as w...

Demand Response, Distribution Resource Planning, Energy Efficiency and Demand Response, Energy Efficiency Program Design, Grid-Scale Renewables, Pricing and Rate Design, Role of Regulatory Institutions Download View Summary
Report May 6, 2015

Demand Response, Aggregation, and the Network Code for Electricity Balancing

By Philip Baker, Michael Hogan, Sarah Keay-Bright

A responsive demand side is critical to the success of the integrated European electricity market (IEM) and, more particularly, to the cost-effective transition to a decarbonised electricity market. The intermittent nature of renewable technologies such as wind and PV makes ensuring a continuous energy balance more challenging and responsive demand can play a ...

Market Design, Power Markets and Reliability, Transmission Planning Download View Summary
Presentation March 24, 2015

Electric Vehicle Smart Charging and Consumer Involvement: Agent, Aggregation, and Access

By Sarah Keay-Bright

The increase in electric vehicle charging is prompting discussions among utilities and regulators about not only grid impacts and best practices, but also about the role of the consumer. At the Eurelectric Seminar “Smart Charging: steering the change, driving the change,” Sarah Keay-Bright pinpoints three key considerations for effective consumer involvement:...

Demand Response, Distributed Generation, Electric Vehicles, Energy Efficiency and Demand Response, Grid-Scale Renewables Download View Summary
Report December 3, 2014

EU Power Sector Market Rules and Policies to Accelerate Electric Vehicle Take-up While Ensuring Power System Reliability

By Sarah Keay-Bright

How and when plug-in electric vehicles (EVs) are recharged can dramatically affect the electric grid. As a result, regulation of the power sector could have a significant influence on the rate of EV rollout. This paper explores how regulation can be developed to minimise negative grid impacts, maximise grid benefits, and shrink the total ownership gap between EVs...

Electric Vehicles, Market Design Download View Summary
Report July 30, 2014

Response to European Commission’s Consultation Relating to the Review of the EU Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Directive

By Sarah Keay-Bright

The European Union’s (EU) Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Directive (2009/31/EC) establishes a legal framework for the environmentally safe geological storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) to contribute to mitigating climate change. In March 2013, the European Commission launched a consultative Communication on the Future of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in Europ...

Climate and Public Health, Greenhouse Gas Management, Integrated Energy and Environmental Policy Download View Summary
Report January 17, 2014

Cap and Invest: The Economic Benefits of Investing EU ETS Auction Revenues into Energy Savings

By Sarah Keay-Bright

Across Europe there is an increasing concern over rising energy prices and their impacts on industry, households, and national economies. Many believe that relaxing Europe’s commitment to a clean energy future is the only way to reduce energy costs. This study demonstrates that there is a better path: by focusing on the smart use of carbon revenues, instead of ...

Climate and Public Health, Energy Efficiency and Demand Response, Energy Efficiency Program Design, Greenhouse Gas Management, Grid-Scale Renewables, Integrated Energy and Environmental Policy Download View Summary