EASE has responded to the European Commission's Public Consultation on the proposal for ‘Hydrogen and Decarbonised Gas markets’ Package. This Package, consisting of a review of the Gas Regulation and of the Gas Directive, aims to decarbonise gas consumption, and puts forward policy measures required for supporting the creation of optimum and dedicated infrastructure, as well as efficient markets.
April 2022 / Policy Papers - Responses to Public Consultations
Renewable Energy Projects: Permit-Granting Processes & Power Purchase Agreements
EASE has responded to the European Commission's Public Consultation on 'Renewable Energy Projects - Permit-Granting Processes & Power Purchase Agreements'. This initiative aims to facilitate renewable energy production projects. It will focuses on the key barriers for implementation of renewable energy projects and outline good practices addressing the identified barriers and ways to facilitate power purchase agreements across borders.
EASE prepared a reply to this consultation to contribute to the efficient development and deployment of renewable energy projects in the EU Member States in a favourable way to the energy storage sector. EASE welcomes the initiative as removing barriers to the permit-granting processes and power purchase agreements (PPAs) issues is essential for decarbonisation, clean energy transition, and energy security.
Regarding permitting procedures, EASE recognises the need for facility providing flexibility in the energy supply chain and options for flexible connection agreements for energy storage. In terms of its legislation, sharing the harmonised categorisation for energy storage among Member States is essential. Moreover, an accurate and accessible guideline for permitting is necessary as well as better training for government staff. EASE believes that procedures should be shortened and digitalised as well as that permitting should not be blocked while new legislation is elaborated. Concerning the PPAs, EASE supports the recognition of hybrid (RES + storage) PPAs in the EU legislation to enable that Member States set up frameworks. Lastly, EASE believes that all the changes should be based on political willingness for active renewable deployment, especially on energy storage, at both European and national levels.
EASE has responded to the European Commission's Public Consultation on the proposal for ‘Hydrogen and Decarbonised Gas markets’ Package. This Package, consisting of a review of the Gas Regulation and of the Gas Directive, aims to decarbonise gas consumption, and puts forward policy measures required for supporting the creation of optimum and dedicated infrastructure, as well as efficient markets.
On 12 July 2022, over 180 participants attended the webinar on how much energy storage does Europe need. The webinar aimed to discuss the huge role energy storage has to play in the evolving energy system, and shed light on how much energy storage will be needed, building upon our estimates in the recently published EASE review paper ‘Energy Storage Targets 2030 and 2050’.
EASE has estimated that the European Union no-regret requirements for energy storage are 200 GW by 2030 and 600 GW by 2050. Current market trajectories for storage will fail to meet these requirements if urgent measures to boost deployment are not taken now. Yet, energy storage is an essential component for enabling renewables integration and establishing a secure, low-emission and affordable energy system.
EASE has prepared a general overview and the best practices across member states, when looking at the way forward for energy storage grid fees. Energy storage doesn’t receive the same treatment across the European Union as far as grid fees go: different technologies, different location (behind-the-meter vs front of the meter), have to face a variety of tariff structures, often not consistent with the EU-level rules as set by the Electricity Market Regulation.
The EASE Task Force on Multi-Services Business Cases for Energy Storage has prepared a report looking at the key role of energy storage as a Local Flexibility provider. This paper gives an overview of existing short-term local flexibility schemes in Europe today including Active-network management (ANM) and other flexibility services and their implications on the business case for energy storage.
