EASE submitted a response to the European Commission Public Consultation on the Revision of the Energy Taxation Directive welcoming the revision of the Energy Taxation Directive and identifying a list of recommendations relevant for energy storage sector.
November 2020 / Reports and Studies
Services to Support Generation and Services to Support Bulk Storage
The Services to Support Generation and Services to Support Bulk Storage Report is one of the applications' descriptions elaborated by the Task Force on Segmentation of Applications. This work builds on the Summary of Energy Storage Applications published in June 2020.
The services to support generation and bulk storage can ensure a vast and clean energy generation from renewable sources and can be divided into seven categories:
Energy arbitrage: The ability of a consumer or entity to buy electricity when the price is low and use it when the price is high.
System electricity supply capacity: The use of energy storage in place of combustion turbine to provide the system with peak generation capacity.
Support to conventional generation: Optimising operation of conventional generation assets including generator bridging and generator ramping.
Ancillary services RES support: The use of energy storage to help variable renewable generation contribute to ancillary services by providing some reserve power.
Capacity firming: The use of energy storage to render variable RES output more constant during a given period of time.
RES curtailment minimisation: Use of energy storage to absorb variable RES that cannot be injected into the electricity grid due to lack of demand, either delivering it to the electricity grid when needed or converting it into another energy vector (gas, fuel or heat) to be delivered to the relevant grid.
Seasonal arbitrage: Taking advantage of an electricity price difference in the wholesale electricity market between 2 seasons.
EASE submitted a response to the European Commission Public Consultation on the Revision of the Energy Taxation Directive welcoming the revision of the Energy Taxation Directive and identifying a list of recommendations relevant for energy storage sector.
The European Commission announced in its 2021 Working Programme that the Third Gas Package will be revised to regulate competitive decarbonised gas markets: EASE believes that energy storage solutions as Hydrogen and Power-to-Gas will play a key role in the transition of the gas system, and sees the proposed revision as a great opportunity to enhance sector integration as well as the deployment of renewable carbon gases.
EASE has provided a response to ENTSO-E Public Consultation on the All Continental Europe TSO’s proposal to determine a minimum activation time period required for limited energy reservoirs to remain available during alert state in accordance with Article 156(11) of the SO GL. Although several flaws in the methodology have been detected, EASE has suggested reasessment of the methodology to enhance the proposal.
EASE welcomes the revision of the Climate, Energy and Environmental Aid Guidelines to align the State aid framework with the EU’s ambitious decarbonisation targets and the European Green Deal. With the revision of the EEAG, the EU seeks to address challenge of ensuring a clear framework that supports decarbonisation in a cost-effective manner while maintaining competition and fair trade.
EASE welcomes EU policymakers’ efforts to revise the Renewable Energy Directive II (RED II) as part of the ‘Fit for 55’ package, expected July 2021. Accelerating the deployment of renewable energy sources (RES) is essential to achieve the EU’s ambitious goals of a 55% GHG emissions reduction by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2050.
