Comments on: What does EU power market reform mean for Central and Eastern Europe power markets? https://energytransition.org/2016/05/what-does-eu-power-market-reform-mean-for-cee-power-markets/ The Global Energiewende Thu, 22 Dec 2016 10:39:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 By: heinbloed https://energytransition.org/2016/05/what-does-eu-power-market-reform-mean-for-cee-power-markets/#comment-4727 Tue, 24 May 2016 20:11:55 +0000 http://energytransition.boellblog.org/?p=10268#comment-4727 @ Amory Lovins:

The EU parliament is demanding from the EU commission to draw up plans to standardize the legislation for non-bureaucratic micro generation:

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52013IP0374

The micro generators are plug-and-play generators, they feed into the grid without remuneration or FIT, so called “guerilla PV”

Once this is becoming the norm (Switzerland, Portugal and the Netherlands have it already) power markets and competition cease to exist.
Like planting a tree and not charging for the oxygen.
Power will be donated free of charge to the grid if not used in-home/behind the meter.

The big utilities are preparing themselves for this ‘market mechanism’ already, REs and grid management seems to be the last part in the electricity sector where money can be made.

]]> By: Amory B. Lovins https://energytransition.org/2016/05/what-does-eu-power-market-reform-mean-for-cee-power-markets/#comment-4726 Thu, 19 May 2016 01:26:31 +0000 http://energytransition.boellblog.org/?p=10268#comment-4726 Thanks for the useful summary. Was anything determined about allowing demand-side resources—end-use efficiency, load flexibility, and behind-the-meter distributed generation or storage—to bid into the same markets as supply resources, so they can compete directly?

]]> By: S. Herb https://energytransition.org/2016/05/what-does-eu-power-market-reform-mean-for-cee-power-markets/#comment-4725 Tue, 17 May 2016 15:04:20 +0000 http://energytransition.boellblog.org/?p=10268#comment-4725 This is assuredly not an area of expertise for me, but I also do not understand how cost recovery works here. Are there tacit assumptions regarding carbon tax level and the rate of coal and lignite retirement? What support mechanisms for renewables in various countries are assumed? How do lower prices lead to better cost recovery?

]]> By: heinbloed https://energytransition.org/2016/05/what-does-eu-power-market-reform-mean-for-cee-power-markets/#comment-4724 Tue, 17 May 2016 09:30:26 +0000 http://energytransition.boellblog.org/?p=10268#comment-4724 Bloomberg about flow-based market coupling:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-11/selling-german-power-in-france-losing-allure-as-prices-converge

How are non-RE generators supposed to recover their costs under this market?

French power prices for example are not even covering half the generating costs anymore.

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