On 7 December 2022, over 200 participants attended webinar on electricity market design revision and joined the discussion on how it can enable energy storage for a carbon-neutral future. Representatives of EASE Policy team presented the latest EASE policy analysis paper "The Electricity Market Design Revision" and shared a list of changes identified to ensure a renewable-based and secure energy system. Speakers from Iberdrola, CellCube, Fluence and Enel X joined to discuss the topic.
February 2023 / Policy Papers - Responses to Public Consultations
Energy Storage: a Crucial Technology in the Transition to a More Sustainable Energy System
The Commission recognises that the electricity market design must adapt to accommodate the growing share of renewable energy sources in the energy mix, and to enable the integration of technologies able to provide flexibility and energy shifting, such as energy storage; at the same time, in the view of the geo-political developments of the past year, European policymakers and Member States felt the urgency to tie together the several emergency measures that have been published in order to protect consumers from supply disruption and high electricity prices, and to provide a coherent framework that could address these issues should they arise again in the future, without sacrificing decarbonisation efforts.
Energy storage is seen in the publication as a crucial technology in the transition to a more sustainable energy system: as the current electricity market design in Europe has not yet fully integrated energy storage, there is a need for a more comprehensive and flexible framework to enable its deployment. The Commission's public consultation aims to address this issue and explore ways to incentivise the deployment of energy storage. EASE ensured that its policy recommendations (as outlined in our recent position paper) to foster the business case and integration of energy storage are heard by the European Commission, and can become part of the upcoming Electricity Market Design proposal.
On 7 December 2022, over 200 participants attended webinar on electricity market design revision and joined the discussion on how it can enable energy storage for a carbon-neutral future. Representatives of EASE Policy team presented the latest EASE policy analysis paper "The Electricity Market Design Revision" and shared a list of changes identified to ensure a renewable-based and secure energy system. Speakers from Iberdrola, CellCube, Fluence and Enel X joined to discuss the topic.
EASE has submitted a technical contribution to the European Chemicals Agency’s Public Consultation on the Annex XV Restriction Report for PFAS. In January 2023, a group of EU member states collectively submitted a proposal for restrictions to the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) concerning per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
EASE has prepared a reply to the European Commission's Public Consultation on the EU Climate Targets for 2040 that aims to gather inputs on the EU’s intermediary climate targets for 2040 by 24 June 2023. The Call for Evidence Feedback will inform a detailed impact assessment in view of drafting a law proposal.
EASE has prepared a position paper on the proposal of the Energy Market Design revision, by outlining the key position of EASE on how to enhance the proposal and make non-fossil flexibility a central component of the new decarbonised energy system. On March 14, 2023, the European Commission released a proposed reform of the Electricity Market Design, which has the potential to significantly impact the energy storage sector.
EASE and LCP-Delta are pleased to announce the publication of the seventh edition of the European Market Monitor on Energy Storage (EMMES). The Market Monitor is based on the most extensive database of European energy storage projects. The database of over 2,600 projects includes detailed data on current installations by customer segment (residential, C&I and front-of-meter) across 24 European countries, future projects and forecasts to 2030.