The access to transmission networks should be re - visited !
BUCHAREST EURELECTRIC CONVENTION
15&16 June 2009
SESSION III: HOW CAN RES BE INTEGRATED IN THE MARKET?
A key session message:
The President of the Romanian Institute for Energy Development Studies (IRE) Jean Constantinescu highlighted the challenges of integrating large-scale RES into electricity markets and discussed how to turn these challenges into opportunities. In order to do so, the development of fully-fledged regional markets must be accompanied by harmonised network-access arrangements, grid reinforcement and proper inter-TSO compensation payment model (ITC). Transmission capacity "should be allocated on the basis of implicit, not explicit, auctions so as to incentivise TSOs to use redespatching or countertrade. Functioning regional intra-day and balancing markets also need to be put in place so as to provide greater opportunities for TSOs to keep the system in balance," he stressed.
Mr Constantinescu championed a specific grid access mechanism based on an innovative transmission calculation model known as Driving-Point [point of connection] power transfer, which will incentivise TSOs to maximise their available capacity and foster cooperation in a multi-TSO environment, while also providing greater transparency to market players. When congestion occurs, capacity should be allocated on the basis of implicit auctions - as opposed to explicit auctions - as being best suited to incentivise TSOs to do redispatching or countertrading. He also stressed that if TSOs only were involved in the management of interconnector constraints as part of their normal operation, it would significantly facilitate the convergence of cross-border and national capacity allocation.
(More details here or http://www.eurelectric.org/AfterBucharest2009/Welcome.htm) from the "Proceedings" page .
On 4 November 2009, EURELECTRIC set out priorities to drive forward market integration of the France-UK-Ireland Region ahead of a stakeholders' meeting in Paris. The Declaration calls on the regulators to review and align arrangements for network access and charging so as to avoid barriers to cross-border trade and use of interconnection, develop a common approach to firmness of capacity, including compensation for curtailment at the prevailing market spread at time of curtailment, and align both gate closure times day ahead and treatment of RES, removing country differences and maintaining investors' confidence… The integration of windpower into electricity networks will become a key issue … as the EU strives to meet its energy-climate targets [Daily News to Members & Subscribers: 06/11/2009].
The access to transmission networks should be re - visited !
BUCHAREST EURELECTRIC CONVENTION
15&16 June 2009
SESSION III: HOW CAN RES BE INTEGRATED IN THE MARKET?
A key session message:
The President of the Romanian Institute for Energy Development Studies (IRE) Jean Constantinescu highlighted the challenges of integrating large-scale RES into electricity markets and discussed how to turn these challenges into opportunities. In order to do so, the development of fully-fledged regional markets must be accompanied by harmonised network-access arrangements, grid reinforcement and proper inter-TSO compensation payment model (ITC). Transmission capacity "should be allocated on the basis of implicit, not explicit, auctions so as to incentivise TSOs to use redespatching or countertrade. Functioning regional intra-day and balancing markets also need to be put in place so as to provide greater opportunities for TSOs to keep the system in balance," he stressed.
Mr Constantinescu championed a specific grid access mechanism based on an innovative transmission calculation model known as Driving-Point [point of connection] power transfer, which will incentivise TSOs to maximise their available capacity and foster cooperation in a multi-TSO environment, while also providing greater transparency to market players. When congestion occurs, capacity should be allocated on the basis of implicit auctions - as opposed to explicit auctions - as being best suited to incentivise TSOs to do redispatching or countertrading. He also stressed that if TSOs only were involved in the management of interconnector constraints as part of their normal operation, it would significantly facilitate the convergence of cross-border and national capacity allocation.
(More details here or http://www.eurelectric.org/AfterBucharest2009/Welcome.htm) from the "Proceedings" page .
On 4 November 2009, EURELECTRIC set out priorities to drive forward market integration of the France-UK-Ireland Region ahead of a stakeholders' meeting in Paris. The Declaration calls on the regulators to review and align arrangements for network access and charging so as to avoid barriers to cross-border trade and use of interconnection, develop a common approach to firmness of capacity, including compensation for curtailment at the prevailing market spread at time of curtailment, and align both gate closure times day ahead and treatment of RES, removing country differences and maintaining investors' confidence… The integration of windpower into electricity networks will become a key issue … as the EU strives to meet its energy-climate targets [Daily News to Members & Subscribers: 06/11/2009].