Who's in charge in the electricity market?
- Category: Energy market
If the Winter Energy Package was adopted as proposed by the European Commission, the EU Member States, national Transmission System Operators, as well as the domestic regulatory authorities would be deprived of the decisive influence over the bidding zone's borders.
Ancillary services in the EU uniform electricity market and the State aid rules - uneasy coexistence
- Category: Energy market
Ancillary service in the electricity market can be easily misunderstood as the capacity mechanism, notwithstanding the fact the legal effects from the State aid treatment point of view, are entirely divergent.
Firmness of allocated cross-zonal capacity - who will earn €9 million per hour?
- Category: Energy market
European Commission Regulation 543/2013 - generation units' and production units' terminology complexities
- Category: Energy market
Two power plants of identical overall capacity of 120 MW each have divergent transparency obligations, depending on the capacity of their electricity generators.
REMIT registration: the separation of roles "Head of Trading" and "Head of Operations"
- Category: Energy market
For market participants with physical assets, "person responsible for operational decisions" should be "the person who is responsible for decisions relating to the running of these assets". And for market participants who don't possess such assets?
CCP's equivalence regime in danger?
- Category: Energy market
By 1 January 2025 the imbalance settlement period must be 15 minutes in all control areas
- Category: Energy market
Coal-biomass co-firing plants in the Community Guidelines on Environmental and Energy State Aid for 2014-2020
- Category: Energy market
Coal-biomass co-firing plants under serious risk of returning aid due to imprecise clues.
NC RfG and DCC - astonishing divergences in derogation procedures
- Category: Energy market
It is probable that legislative efforts to elaborate on the two fundamental Internal Electricity Market network codes:
1) Network Code for Requirements for Grid Connection Applicable to all Generators (NC RfG), and
2) Network Code on Demand Connection (DCC)
will effect in the coming months in the adoption of regulations with European-wide binding force.
It merits noticing that both network codes impose sometimes strict technical and legal requirements on, respectively, Power Generating Modules and Demand Facilities.
Standard imbalance and connection charges to be borne by renewable sources under the new draft GBER Regulation
- Category: Energy market
Acknowledging a patchwork of existing European renewable promotion schemes may provide to the contrary, the requirements proposed in the latest version of the draft GBER Regulation propose that if a renewable electricity is supplied to the grid, the producers or where relevant aggregators should be subject to standard obligations regarding network connection and network connection charges and should bear responsibility, in financial terms, for all deviations (imbalances) between their scheduled and actual generation within a given imbalance settlement period. The said responsibility can be outsourced to other balance responsible parties, subject to commercial arrangements.
The key issue is also that the State aid to electricity generation from non-renewable sources and to energy infrastructures will not be exempt from the EC notification 'in view of their high distortive potential impact on the internal energy market.' Such investments will have to be notified to the European Commission to assess their compatibility with the internal market.
Bidding zones instead of borders
- Category: Energy market
Energy transmission rights as financial instruments
- Category: Energy market
Financial energy transmission rights could fall under the category of financial instruments but transmission system operators assert they can benefit from the “incidental” activity exemption. Are they right?
What can be expected in 2013 as regards legislative developments in the energy market
- Category: Energy market
2014 has been politically set as a target for the completion of the European internal market for electricity and gas. It is useful to know the schedule for adopting the main network codes in that regard.
What is your VoLL?
- Category: Energy market
European Single Electricity Balancing Market - state of play
- Category: Energy market
Assuming Framework Guidelines become binding law, and the fact intermittent generation as the PV or wind sources have very low variable costs, it is probable in the future Single Electricity Market baseload fossil-fueled generation like coal and gas will gradually be squeezed out from providing balancing services.
Investment outlays engaged in these sources will probably be recovered over longer periods due to contained periods of operation of these units on the electricity balancing market. In such a situation it appears more and more questionable, whether the investors decide to engage in new sources of fossil-fuel generation.
ENTSO-E however engages in a dispute with the European energy regulator ACER over the content of the Framework Guidelines.
Registration for REMIT – requirement to reveal corporate structures
- Category: Energy market
As market participants will not be allowed to trade until they are registered, it may potentially represent a barrier to trade in the internal energy market.
Registration will not be a one-off event, but rather an ongoing requirement due to obligation to keep information provided up-to-date. From the practical point of view it is therefore necessary to establish within corporate structures of market participants arrangements ensuring that new requirements will be properly and timely discharged.
It should be noted that market participants are under obligation to register even if they are located outside the European Union.
Another issue of potential significance for the wider market is the commercial exploitation for data contained in the part of the register publicly revealed by ACER.
New regulation of the Price Comparison Tools in the Winter Energy Package
- Category: Energy market
100 MW outages as REMIT inside information
- Category: Energy market
Somebody my ask why exactly 100 MW (and above) outage is treated as inside information under REMIT Regulation and what is the legal basis for such determination...