SolarPower Europe (Brussels) is calling on
the European Commission to address the needs of solar power and energy
storage technology in its upcoming Energy Union Package.
The association’s Task Force on Solar &
Storage has created 10 Policy Asks that are crucial to develop an
appropriate framework for solar photovoltaics (PV) & storage.
“The industry is being very successful in bringing
down the cost of stationary battery storage and in improving its ability
to provide efficient services and solutions to the market,” says
Riccardo Amoroso, Chief Innovation Officer of Enel Green Power and Vice
President of SolarPower Europe.
“Today we need European policy makers to put in
place stable regulatory conditions including clear definitions and an
appropriate market design to ensure a level playing field among
competing solution providers. Such conditions will allow for further
innovations and corresponding market growth.”
Battery storage to lift solar power to the next growth level
While the solar power market in Europe has been in a
transition phase over the last few years, the combination of solar and
storage is the perfect fit to lift solar power to the next growth level,
the association emphasizes.
Solar power could strongly contribute to reaching the target in the current draft RE directive
“If the regulatory environment for solar &
storage is set effectively, solar power will strongly contribute to
reaching the 27% target for renewable energy in 2030 in the current
draft RE directive,” comments Michael Schmela, Executive Advisor at
SolarPower Europe.
Implementing our 10 policy priorities for solar
& storage in the Energy Union Package would already go a big part of
the way to achieving the realistic 35% target SolarPower Europe would
like to see in the new REDII 2030 directive.”
10 Policy Priorities for Solar & Storage
- DEFINITION
An EU-wide definition of “electricity storage” should be introduced in the revised Electricity Directive. This definition should:
a. Establish electricity storage as a new type of asset on the grid that can provide multiple services – next to traditional transmission, distribution and generation assets.
b. Acknowledge that electricity storage provides value as it can both absorb and release electricity from and into the grid.
c. Set the ground for a fair taxation of stored electricity, in particular to avoid double taxation.
d. Recognize the commercial value of flexibility services provided at system as well as local level and encourage energy planners, regulators and system operators to integrate electricity storage in their planning.
- Clarifying
the definition and rights of active consumers regarding storage: the
REDII should enshrine the right for consumers to self-generate and
consume renewable energy:
- Consumers need to be able to own and operate storage devices without discrimination.
- The stored electricity must be free of specific taxes or charges. - MARKET DESIGN
An appropriate reform of the intraday markets is crucial for enabling large-scale solar plants to better take on balancing responsibilities. This will also push for new solutions combining solar & storage. - A real market for selling and procuring flexibility services must be developed, both at transmission and distribution levels.
a. Distributed energy resources should have full market access, being able to stack value across existing and new markets wherever appropriate.
b. Minimum sizing requirements should be reduced
c. Products on the ancillary services markets should properly value the high accuracy, fast response, synthetic inertia etc. that storage can provide.
d. Contract durations in ancillary service markets should not be unnecessarily short as such durations may penalise potential solutions with high CAPEX or which cannot easily be redesigned to suit short contract durations.
e. DSOs should have the right to procure flexibility services from transmission and distribution level. - A clear basis regarding rules and circumstances under which TSOs and DSOs may operate storage solutions must be developed.
- Targeted
solar tenders can incorporate as a weighting selection criteria the
co-location of solar & storage (for instance on islands). The
ability to avoid grid congestion might be a lever for deploying storage
solutions.
- The exchange of electricity on a community
scale via collective selfconsumption schemes must be possible for active
consumers. Third party intermediaries should be allowed to operate
active consumers’ electricity storage devices via pooling platforms,
such as virtual power plants or peer-to-peer mechanisms.
- Clear
rules regarding data transparency and access for all stakeholders are
required: Data transparency & access are foundational enablers for
stakeholders to proactively develop innovations in grid design and
operation that increase reliability as well as safety. Next to this,
data access is an important pillar to advancing solar & storage
solutions both at the consumer level (for determining economics) as well
as at the grid level (for integrating distributed energy resources).
Without data sharing, key stakeholders are sidelined from proposing new
solutions that drive innovation and increase consumer choice.
- REMUNERATION
Active consumers should be remunerated fairly for providing their devices to deliver services that support the electric grid. To achieve fair remuneration and service provision, tariffs must provide consumers and service providers with price signals to be able to act upon market developments and system needs. - Distribution grid tariffs must be “fit for the energy transition.” They should incentivise consumers to invest in technologies such as storage and advanced meters to allow the smartening of distributed solar PV by ensuring a balanced approach between volumetric and capacity-based grid tariffs. This balance can evolve over time (grid tariffs are set every 4 to 5 years on average in Europe) to accompany the progressive penetration of solar and storage.
- source: http://www.solarserver.com
No comments:
Post a Comment