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Electricity Market Design – creating the stimulus for competitive Offshore Wind within the internal energy market

September 7, 2023 by Energy Post

Ahead of the upcoming discussion in Brussels (September 18, 15:00, Polish Embassy REGISTER HERE) on how to stimulate renewable investment, see below for a reminder of what was discussed at our conference before the summer. This time around, following an open address by Wanda Buk, VP Regulatory Affairs at PGE, PGE Baltica's CEO, Arkadiusz SeksciĹ„ski will be joined by Thor-Sten Vertmann, Electricity Market Design (EMD) expert within Ms Kadri … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Policies, Renewables Tagged With: CFD, consumers, design, Distribution, electricity, EU, hedging, hubs, incentives, markets, ppa, prices, reform, renewables, risks, subsidiarity

“Book and Claim”: how end consumers can pay distant producers for low carbon products

July 12, 2023 by Thomas Koch Blank, Laura Hutchinson, Oscar Hernandez, Esther Sicong Li and Alexandra Wall

In long logistical chains (found in steel, concrete, aviation, shipping and others) end consumers that want to pay a premium to cut their emissions (for example to comply with corporate decarbonisation promises) often have no way to pay the first link in that chain to go low-carbon. “Book and Claim” creates a market to do that. Consumers buy certificates, and producers get the money to fulfil the commitment. And a working system will bring to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Industry, Transport and energy Tagged With: aviation, BookAndClaim, certificates, concrete, consumers, corporate, decarbonisation, efuels, emissions, investment, monitoring, regulations, SAF, shipping, steel

ReDREAM: Horizon-backed project gives consumers control of local renewables, prices and demand

March 7, 2023 by Steve Gillman

The ReDREAM project, funded by EU Horizon 2020, wants to put consumers at the centre of the energy market. As Steve Gillman explains, people and businesses can shape their supply and demand by owning local renewable generation and combining that with smart systems that give visibility of prices and generation to enable control of demand, right down to the level of heat pumps, washing machines, hot water systems and EVs. A 30-household pilot is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Renewables Tagged With: consumers, demand, electricity, EVs, FlexCommunity, generation, HeatPumps, Horizon2020, markets, prices, ReDREAM, renewables, smart

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

Corporate greenwashing: will court cases and new rules close the gap between promises and reality?

November 15, 2022 by Isabel Sutton

Activists are taking firms to court over deceiving consumers with questionable climate pledges. Isabel Sutton at Clean Energy Wire summarises the issues. Greenwashing, and therefore misdirecting consumer behaviour, is clearly a barrier to achieving climate goals. The latest IPCC report says consumer behaviour and changes to our lifestyles can result in a 40%–70% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.  But unregulated advertising can say … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Policies Tagged With: advertising, Beiersdorf, BP, consumers, emissions, EU, Exxon, greenwashing, KLM, litigation, netzero, Nivea, offsetting, Shell, TotalEnergies

Don’t cap gas prices for consumers. It won’t reduce demand. Instead, subsidies must reward cuts in gas use

September 9, 2022 by Daniel Gros

European nations are considering capping the price of gas that consumers pay, a subsidy that governments will pay for, to ensure households don’t freeze this winter. Daniel Gros at CEPS warns that this strategy will remove the incentive for consumers to cut their gas use, keeping international market prices high. Instead, governments should incentivise a reduction in gas use. Gros has modelled two strategies. The first is to pay households for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Oil, Gas & Coal, Policies Tagged With: consumers, demand, EU, gas, imports, LNG, prices, Russia, subsidies, Ukraine, winter

U.S. FERC proposal for grid planning has serious flaws around benefits and beneficiaries

May 30, 2022 by Mike Jacobs

The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is in the midst of a key rulemaking on planning and building an electric grid. But the plan has serious flaws, says Mike Jacobs at UCS, rooted in the lack of coordination and control at the federal level. FERC wants the states to work with the utilities to define the sharing of benefits and costs from transmission, describe resource areas (like wind, solar, geothermal) where transmission is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Grids Tagged With: consumers, costs, FERC, girds, planning, states, Transmission, US, utilities

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

What is your nation’s “deforestation footprint”? When imports cut down trees somewhere else

April 27, 2021 by Ayesha Tandon

Behaviour change is now inextricably linked to the transition and must be part of the world’s emissions reduction strategy, and there are many different types of relevant behaviour and ways to measure the impacts. One is to look at deforestation, caused by chopping down trees to meet our consumer needs. To grasp whose behaviour has to change we need to appreciate to what extent deforestation in places like Brazil, Canada, Liberia, Vietnam etc., … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Environment Tagged With: BehaviourChange, Brazil, China, consumers, deforestation, emissions, Germany, imports, Japan, Singapore, US

Broken public utilities: how to fix them

September 8, 2015 by Branko Terzic

The recent newspaper reports of financial and operating problems at the Puerto Rican Electric Power Authority (PREPA) and South Africa’s ESKOM show that these state-owned systems suffer from similar governance and regulatory deficiencies, writes Branko Terzic, Managing Director of Berkeley Research Group and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. According to Terzic, a former Commissioner on the U.S. FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy, Markets Tagged With: consumers, electricity market, financing, governance, infrastructure, subsidies, utilities

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