SolarPower Europe advocates for a comprehensive EU Flexibility Strategy to accelerate the energy transition, and strengthen grid resilience with demand response and battery storage through three core pillars:
Taking a Flexibility-First Approach to Grid Development
- Integrate flexibility into grid planning: Ensure grid planning processes genuinely consider
flexibility options. - Reward system operators for efficiency: Implement remuneration schemes that incentivise
congestion relief and avoided infrastructure costs. - Enhance transparency: Deploy transparent grid hosting maps to speed up grid connection for flexibility providers.
- Prioritise flexible assets: Manage grid connection queues to favour projects that deliver system value.
- Incentivise flexibility through tariffs: Design grid tariffs that encourage flexible solutions.
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Unlocking Demand Response Potential
- Market equality for demand response: Treat demand response as equal to supply solutions across all electricity markets.
- Harmonise technical requirements: Establish network codes that align market and technical standards for demand response providers.
- Empower consumers: Promote dynamic contracts, flexible devices, and smart meters to enable households to react to price signals.
- Support industrial flexibility: Advance policies that reward demand-side flexibility in industrial electrification.
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Embracing Battery Storage Opportunities
- Streamline permitting: Facilitate retrofitting battery storage to existing plants with simplified permitting rules.
- Fair grid tariffs: Ensure grid tariffs reflect the system value of battery storage, avoiding double charges.
- Procure grid-forming services: Develop grid stability markets that source services from battery storage.
- Support European industry: Foster industrial policies for European production and strategic partnerships in an open trade environment.
- Set clear standards: Harmonise safety and quality standards for battery storage across Europe.
- Promote circularity: Implement circularity policies with focus on critical raw materials, and leverage the scale of Single Market for efficient waste streams.
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Flexibility strengthening the grid with storage and demand response
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