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EU electricity market reform: completing, not dismantling, the integration is the answer

November 18, 2022 by Leonardo Meeus

Leonardo Meeus at the Florence School of Regulation explains why electricity market reform in the EU must be about completing the process of integration, not unwinding it. He breaks down his argument into five categories – Electricity Markets, Contracts for Difference (CfD) and Power Purchase Agreements (PPA), Capacity Remuneration Mechanisms (CRM), Energy Communities, and Demand-side Flexibility – and with each he defines their purpose, looks at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Markets Tagged With: CFD, communities, consumers, CRM, demand, electricity, EU, flexibility, gas, incentives, markets, policies, ppa, prices, reform, renewables, Russia, Ukraine

Russia-Ukraine: modelling the consequences for the European electricity market to 2050

June 17, 2022 by Alex Schmitt, Christoph Kellermann, Calvin Triems and Huangluolun Zhou

Alex Schmitt, Christoph Kellermann, Calvin Triems and Huangluolun Zhou at Energy Brainpool have used their modelling tools to update their predictions of how the European electricity market will develop over the next 30 years, given a target of 99% emission-free generation in 2050. Projections are made on generation (mix and volumes) and price. The big change from their last predictions is the Russia-Ukraine war and Europe’s determination to ramp … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Grids, Markets, Renewables Tagged With: 2050, bioenergy, CO2price, coal, electricity, emobility, EU, EVs, gas, generation, heating, hydrogen, Nuclear, oil, prices, Russia, solar, Ukraine, wind

Gas crunch causes electricity crisis despite record cheap clean energy. Time to create a “green energy pool”?

February 11, 2022 by Michael Grubb

In the UK and similar nations, the gas crisis is ballooning electricity prices too. That’s because the UK operates a wholesale electricity market where the most expensive power sets the price. As we enter an era where renewables are getting cheaper every year, it’s time to change that model so that consumers see the benefits, argues Michael Grubb at UCL. The design of electricity systems is not keeping up with the revolution in renewable energy. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Markets Tagged With: crisis, electricity, gas, markets, power, renewables, solar, UK, wholesale, wind

Europe’s power market: acceptable energy costs and long term security of supply needs today’s rules reshaped

December 2, 2021 by Eryk Kłossowski, Artur Świętanowski and Maciej Jakubik

In the last few months the electricity and gas markets in Europe experienced unusual turbulence, particularly the price spike for electricity, gas and coal. This was due to a combination of several factors. We can argue about the causes but none of them gets us closer to the point: Europe's current exposure and vulnerability to such risks should be blamed mainly on the electricity market design, which does not support energy security nearly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Markets

Electricity Market Reform: ACER must empower consumers, not just network operators

November 19, 2021 by Simon Skillings and Lisa Fischer

ACER, the EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators, has delivered to the EC its preliminary assessment of Europe's high energy prices and the current wholesale electricity market design. Simon Skillings and Lisa Fischer at E3G interpret ACER’s assessment as showing it wants to maintain the status quo. However, long-term changes in market design are inevitable. The authors want ACER to accept this reality and ensure the changes are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Grids, Markets Tagged With: ACER, consumers, demand, EC, electrification, flexibility, grids, markets, networks, prices, renewables, SmartMeters

Will COP26 set right the booming Carbon Offset Market

November 3, 2021 by Kerstine Appunn

Carbon offsetting is when a company, rather than cut its own emissions, pays someone else somewhere else to cut their emissions. It has always been controversial because it has two main problems. Buying carbon credits means you aren’t putting the effort in to cut emissions yourself. And the risk of double-counting: when the company reports it has cut emissions, and so does the “someone else”. A third problem exists too: measuring whether the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Markets Tagged With: additionality, Article6, carbon, COP26, doublecounting, emissions, monitoring, NDCs, offsetting, Paris2050

Ramping-up EU hydrogen markets with effective Regulation

June 14, 2021 by Walter Boltz

On Wednesday (June 16, 2021), Energy Post is hosting a panel with representatives from ELIA, SNAM and BASF to discuss the best approach to market and system design for Hydrogen. It's free and you can register here. In this article, Walter Boltz, Senior European Energy Advisor, makes the case for a regulatory framework 'mostly identical' to the one so painstakingly developed for natural gas with a few practical differences - but this won't suit … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Debates, Energy, Events, Hydrogen, Markets Tagged With: BASF, ELIA, gas regulation. gas market design, hydrogen, market design, Snam

Do government renewable energy auctions squeeze the PPA market?

March 12, 2021 by Michael ClauĂźner

Spanish government renewable energy auctions in January produced record-breaking low strike prices for both wind and solar. For solar the average price was €24.47/MWh (the lowest was €14.98/MWh), guaranteed for 12 years through contracts-for-difference (CfDs). As such auctions continue around Europe, Michael ClauĂźner at Energy Brainpool asks what impact these prices will have on future power prices in general and on solar power purchase agreement … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Markets, Renewables Tagged With: auctions, CfDs, electricity, investment, power, PPAs, prices, renewables, solar, wind

Carbon Offsetting via old wind and solar farms is no way to reduce emissions

January 21, 2021 by Mark Maslin and Simon Lewis

Companies can offset their emissions by buying carbon credits, where the money goes to fund clean energy projects. But the carbon credit market includes credits for very old projects. This is a foolish waste, explain Mark Maslin and Simon Lewis at UCL (UK). The market must be based on the principle of additionality: the money should be aimed at projects that would not have happened otherwise, thereby causing emissions reductions that would not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Markets, Renewables Tagged With: CarbonCredits, CarbonOffsets, emissions, markets, renewables, solar, wind

A new EU Gas Market must expose it to all clean energy solutions, not just gas-on-gas

January 15, 2021 by Simon Skillings and Lisa Fischer

Towards the end of this year the EC is expected to issue new proposals for gas legislation, a once in a decade market reform. Simon Skillings and Lisa Fischer at E3G highlight the big difference between the design of gas and electricity markets for Europe. The electricity market is growing, the gas market needs to shrink. The authors quote figures showing that the EU's 55% emissions reduction target for 2030 means natural gas use will reduce by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Markets, Oil, Gas & Coal Tagged With: biofuels, Digitalisation, EC, efficiency, electrification, gas, GreenNewDeal, hydrogen, JustTransition, markets

WEO 2020 means updated price predictions to 2040: Oil, Gas, Coal, Renewables, Power

November 2, 2020 by Carlos Perez Linkenheil

The combined effect of the global lockdown, more ambitious climate policies and the rise of renewables will have a significant effect on European power prices up to 2040, as well as the sales revenues of renewable energies. Carlos Perez-Linkenheil at Energy Brainpool uses their Power2Sim model to look at the data in the IEA’s latest World Energy Outlook 2020 and make quantitative forecasts. The pandemic has caused structural distortions to the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Markets, Oil, Gas & Coal Tagged With: coal, Covid, gas, Nuclear, oil, power, prices, renewables, solar, WEO20, wind

California learns even flexible Emissions Markets won’t guarantee price stability

July 20, 2020 by Severin Borenstein

In May, emissions allowance prices hit rock bottom in California. How can cap-and-trade work properly when prices are so volatile and difficult to predict? It makes life very difficult for businesses and investors, not to mention the state. Changes to the rules are being proposed to introduce more flexibility into the effective price floors, ceilings and the availability of allowances. But Severin Borenstein at the Energy Institute at Haas … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Markets, Policies Tagged With: allowances, California, CapAndTrade, CarbonPrices, emissions, ETS, prices, taxes

Dutch-Spanish startup navigates coronavirus fallout while also guiding utilities into the digital age

July 9, 2020 by Jeff Benzak

In late summer 2015 at a research university in Belgium, an Italian graduate student new to campus attended a welcome event hosted by engineering department faculty. Sampling beer brewed by an electrical engineering student association, Simone Accornero mingled with a dozen other new classmates in his program at KU Leuven. Accornero began chatting with an engineering master’s student who had just arrived from Poland. “We hit it off,” Accornero … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blockchain, Climate policy, Community, EU Policy, Innovations, Investment, Markets, Policies, Renewables Tagged With: blockchain, Clean Tech, Coronavirus, Digitisation, EU, European Green Deal, policy, R&I, Research and Innovation, Start-up, utilities

Europe’s new Hydrogen Strategy: the questions that still need answering

July 9, 2020 by Gökçe Mete and Leonie Reins

Yesterday saw the launch of the EC’s new Hydrogen Strategy, the focus of our next live online discussion and Q&A. Register now to join us at the event next Wednesday at 12.45 CEST on Zoom to hear direct from the European Commission's Dr. Florian Ermacora, Future Energy System expert Prof. dr. Ad van Wijk, Giulia Branzi - Head of Regulation at event partner SNAM and trading specialist Marcel Steinbach of BDEW. Here, to set the scene, Gökçe … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Debates, Energy, Events, Expert Panel, Hydrogen, Markets, Platform Tagged With: ENTSO-E, ENTSOG, EU, gas, hydrogen, HydrogenStrategy, infrastructure, markets, policies, regulation, Snam, tariffs

EU ETS: The Market Stability Reserve should focus on carbon prices, not allowance volumes

June 16, 2020 by Michael Pahle and Simon Quemin

The Market Stability Reserve (MSR) aims at providing carbon price stability for the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). But serious questions are being asked about how much stability – if any – it provides, say Michael Pahle at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Simon Quemin at the LSE's Grantham Research Institute. They argue that the MSR rules are too complex, have difficulty accommodating changing EU and national policies, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Markets, Policies Tagged With: carbon, CarbonPrice, emissions, ETS, EU, EUETS, markets, MSR, policies, prices

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