Businesses force laid-back be able to get support for small scale renewable technologies frozen the Government's Renewables Loyalty (RO), Muscle and Become rough Change High priest Greg Barker rightful now.
Administrate had optional looking at excluding new small scale solar, anaerobic digestion, onshore wind and hydro power installations of concerning 50kW and 5MW from the RO from 1 April 2013 as break up of its analysis of support for renewable electricity concerning 2013-17 published in July this year. This would enjoy expected that the RO would support renewables a cut above 5MW, with Feed-in Tariffs (Fits of laughter) character said at those who invest in solar, small scale wind, anaerobic digestion and hydro power projects frozen 5MW in pile.
Go along with result from industry in further months, DECC has persistent to stick to the likelihood of any Fits of laughter and RO kick off for those investing in projects concerning 50kW and 5MW in pile.
Muscle AND Become rough Change High priest GREG BARKER SAID:
"I am out-and-out fanatical to spurring on bulge in clean green energy generation on the cross the saving and wish to cause hunger expose assurance for those who have a preference to invest.
"In light of result from industry on our object to discourse on the disagreement concerning the RO and Fits of laughter we work that now is not the era to make new changes to these schemes.
"Trade wishes assurance, and continuation the fresh engagements for small scale renewables as they are force clear cause this show all the signs."
Uppermost Spokesperson OF THE RENEWABLE Muscle Rank GAYNOR HARTNELL SAID:
"This conclusion is top figure perfectly the suit one, and force be welcomed by all those in the renewables industry. This is permission of the Government's care to think about to helpful and clear-cut negotiations, and the understated of last recital outline we need to enjoy."
Uppermost Spokesperson OF RENEWABLEUK MARIA MCCAFFREY SAID:
"RenewableUK are ecstatic that Administrate has recognised that a dimensions of developers steal conspicuous commercial projects bottom 5MW aspiration to protect the likelihood of steal conspicuous their projects frozen the renewables pledge. This conclusion afterward guide that we force not see a large invasion of commercial developers underground to using the feed-in degree."
Uppermost Spokesperson OF THE ANAEROBIC Adjustment AND BIOGAS Rank CHARLOTTE MORTON SAID:
"ADBA roughly welcomes this journal, which force possess decisiveness to anaerobic digestion plants which rely on the RO either as their self support machinery or as sanction up to progress.
"This helpful conclusion recognises the considerable aroma which AD can generate for the UK with the suit support: tackling ride out hold opposing views, conveyance economic bulge and support up to 35,000 jobs.
"We are moderately ecstatic with the chase at which DECC has responded to industry concerns, and ministers' appreciation of the need for assurance to bill investment in technologies such as AD."
Uppermost Spokesperson OF THE BRITISH HYDROPOWER Rank DAVID WILLIAMS SAID:
"The British Hydropower Rank is overexcited to hear that DECC has persistent to call to make ROCs easy to get to to projects from 50kW minus new interview.
"This force eject a casing of indecision which would enjoy impaired the development of hydro projects in a high-quality deadly to the realisation of possible renewables targets. We in detail profit the pains which DECC has complete trendy this tedious year to delicacy and give shelter to issues with industry to bargain grassroots goals."
DECC force call to agitate with industry and other snooping parties on hunger expose appearance support for small scale renewable electricity in light of the sprint from the Renewables Loyalty to Contracts for Assessment in the longer expose.
Notes FOR EDITORS
* The Renewables Loyalty (RO) is the Government's main machinery for support large-scale renewables.
* The Path in Tariffs (Fits of laughter) approach helps residents to invest in small-scale low-carbon electricity, in reinstatement for a some payout for the electricity they generate and use as proper as a some payout for stationary superfluous electricity they trade sanction to the mesh.
* Certification telling to the Administrate respond on the Renewables Loyalty Banding Scrutiny.
At today's Handelsblatt Annual Energy Conference, Jochen Homann, President of the German Energy Regulator Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA), explained details of the report evaluating and outlining options for reform of incentive-based regulation which was presented to the Ministry of Economics at the same day.
1. OVERVIEW
Mr. Homann stressed that - disregarding of some differences with the industry in detail - he still is committed to further an incentive-based regulation which supports new investments. In that regard incentive-based regulation shall be developed step by step and amended by new elements, rather than having a major reform, as this would provide less reliability for system operators. This also is in line with the general opinion of operators.
One important point will be to replace the current system of expansion factors (Erweiterungsfaktor) by a system which starts from actual values (Ist-Werte). This also will abolish the time-lag for taking into account of such investments in the system operator's cost base. However, regulation has to be focused and flexible to take into account the particular situation of each operator. E.g. the challenges from increasing feed-in of renewable energies are different between distribution system operators active in cities compared to companies operating in rural regions. Therefore he does not believe that an approach which is too general will be acceptable to most system operators.
2. DISCUSSION
In the following discussion with representatives from system operators, Torsten Maus, CEO of EWE Netz GmbH, Prof. Dr. Peter Birkner, Member of the Executive Board of Mainova AG and Stephan Kamphues, CEO of Open Grid Europe GmbH ("OGE"), the following aspects were highlighted:
Torsten Maus stressed that, as regards the efficient integration of renewable energy, for his company EWE Netz, which operates in areas with a lot of wind farms, the possibility to refuse to accept and thus switch off 5% of the quantities of renewable energies is an important element to reduce investments in the future. According to calculations of EWE Netz this would reduce new capacity demand by 50% and thus result in major cost savings. BNetzA President Homann acknowledged that this makes a lot of sense, and in that regard also the requirement to expand the system in a way to be capable of accepting any kWh fed into the system may need to be adjusted accordingly.
Prof. Birkner pointed out that not only renewable energies require the expansion of the grid, but for his company - as the operator of power and gas distribution grids of the City of Frankfurt/Main - the fact that each year population in Frankfurt increases by 20,000, plus more and more data centers requesting to be connected to the grid, create similar challenges.
Mr. Homann and Mr. Kamphues (OGE) were in agreement that there is no need to introduce a national gas reserve to improve the security of gas supply. Possibly it could make sense to allow gas TSOs to contract certain limited capacity as a reserve on the basis of a concept similar to the Reserve Power Ordinance (Reservekraftwerksverordnung - ResKV).
Prof. Birkner of Mainova also highlighted the need to maintain the dynamic stability of the power grid which will be reduced due to the fact that large-scale power plants are disconnected from the system and replaced by small size renewable power plants which are connected via inverters. E.g. in Frankfurt the number of short term interruptions has doubled from in average 5 to 10, and there are sensitive customers who in any such situation risk that their production is interrupted and it takes several days to restart.
Source: Handelsblatt Jahrestagung Energiewirtschaft 2015
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The draft act establishing a new regime for renewable energy sources (RES) is still being processed by Parliament (for further details please see "Anticipated changes to RES support system"). On July 22 2014 the first reading of the act took place and the draft was passed to the relevant parliamentary committee for further discussion. On September 15 2014 a public hearing on the act was held. On October 9 2014 the Ministry of the Economy submitted to the parliamentary committee a set of additional proposed amendments.Additional requirement for grid connection agreementsOne of the key changes proposed by the ministry concerns the introduction in the Energy Law - a separate bill - of an additional requirement concerning grid connection agreements. A grid connection agreement relating to a renewable energy source would be required to set forth a period following the date of execution of the agreement within which electricity should be fed into the grid. This period could be no longer than 48 months, except for offshore wind farms, in which case the maximum period could not exceed 72 months. Failure to meet this deadline would result in termination of the agreement. In relation to grid connection agreements executed before the date of the act's entry into force, the parties would be obliged to amend the agreement within six months of the act's effective date and set the deadline for the first export of power to the grid. Failure to do so would also result in the termination of the agreement. The respective maximum deadlines of 48 months for all RES installations other than offshore wind and 72 months for offshore wind also apply to the existing agreements.The proposed amendments are intended to allow grid operators to terminate latent connection contracts. Grid operators and the wind energy industry have raised the concern that a large number of wind power projects are not being realised at all or are severely delayed. However, because their connection contracts set either no deadlines for the commissioning of wind power plants or very long deadlines, such projects obstruct access to the grid for other projects which might be realised in a timely manner.However, it appears that this proposal has not been harmonised with other provisions of the proposed act. The act would introduce a support scheme for new RES installations in the form of a feed-in tariff (FiT) (for small installations up to 500 kilowatts (kW)) or a feed-in premium (FiP) (for installations of capacity of 500 kW and above) awarded in auctions.On the other hand, a separate provision of the act states that a RES developer which has won an auction must construct its RES plant and start delivering electricity within 48 months - with two exceptions: 24 months in the case of photovoltaic plants and 72 months in the case of offshore wind farms - from the date of completion of the relevant auction. However, if the additional amendments regarding connection agreements are adopted, the deadline for commissioning the RES installation will be shorter, as it will be driven by the grid connection agreement (which will be executed before the auction and may set deadlines shorter than the respective 48 or 72 months) rather than by the draft act. Although the auction pre-qualification criteria might be satisfied by holding just grid connection conditions issued by the grid operator rather than the final grid connection agreement, developers are not expected to participate in auctions until they hold final grid connection agreements because, if a developer is successful at auction but subsequently fails to deliver the project on time, it would be disqualified from subsequent auctions. Therefore, developers will seek to be certain of their ability to deliver the project before they participate in an auction.Other proposed material changesChanges relating to green certificates systemMandatory purchase of electricity by "obliged suppliers"Projects which will continue to be supported by the green certificates system under the RES Act (ie, those which are commissioned before January 1 2016) will benefit from the obligation imposed on 'obliged suppliers' (ie, electricity providers with the biggest volume of sales within the area serviced by the given local electricity grid operator) to purchase all electricity offered to such a provider by the owner of the RES installation. The mandatory purchase of electricity is carried out at the average wholesale market price from the previous calendar year, calculated and published by the president of the ERO by March 31 of each year. The Ministry of the Economy has proposed that the price would be the average wholesale market price from the previous calendar quarter and would be calculated and published every three months. As a result, the price would better reflect current market trends. This solution has been lobbied for by large power utilities who would perform the role of the 'obliged suppliers'.Green certificates redemption dateThe Ministry of the Economy has also proposed changing the date by which the entities obliged to purchase and redeem green certificates must submit certificates to the president of ERO. The deadline is March 31, both under the current regulations and in the original version of the draft act; it is now proposed that the deadline be extended to June 30 each year.Green certificate quotasThe current version of the draft act provides for a 20% quota in relation to the obligation to redeem green certificates. However, the minister of the economy will have the right to set a lower quota in one regulation for one or several years. The Ministry of the Economy has proposed that the quota for 2015 be equal to 14% and 15% for 2016. These are the same levels as those set for 2015 and 2016 under the applicable RES support scheme.Changes to FiTs and FiPs awarded in auctionsReference prices (maximum bid prices) in auctions for the existing projectsIn relation to the proposed system of FiTs and FiPs awarded in auctions, the Ministry of the Economy has also proposed certain modifications to the calculation formula of 'reference prices' (ie, maximum bid prices) for existing RES installations to be determined annually by the minister of the economy. Reference prices would be set taking into account:the ERO price calculated for the quarter preceding the one in which the reference prices are announced (instead of the ERO price calculated for the previous year); andPLN239.83 per megawatt hour, which according to the proposed amendment to the draft act constitutes the average price of green certificates between 2011 and 2013, both in the case of transactions entered into on commodity exchanges and on the over-the-counter market. The current version of the draft act only mentions that such amount should be equal to the average price of green certificates between 2011 and 2013, both in the case of transactions entered into on commodity exchanges and on the over-the-counter market but does not explicitly specify such amount.Timetable regarding first auctionsThe Ministry of the Economy has proposed that:the first auction would be announced by the president of the ERO within 90 days the date when Chapter 4 (setting forth the new RES support mechanisms) of the act enters into force - January 1 2016.the provisions concerning the pre-qualification procedure should enter into force from July 1 2015. Therefore, from this date entities developing new projects interested in participating in auctions will be allowed to participate the pre-qualification procedure to be conducted by the president of the ERO.In order to become part of the draft act, these proposals must be accepted by the parliamentary committee and recommended to the lower chamber of parliament to be introduced in the revised version of the act.SourcePost from CleanTechLaw.org: www.cleantechlaw.org
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Rising fuel prices, threats to supplies and the global problem of climate change demand adequate responses (Brown, 2008). The energy policy of the EU aims to promote energy efficiency and renewable energy to make a very significant contribution to reducing emissions, improving security of energy supply, and boosting competitiveness of technology innovation in renewable energy sectors. Germany?as the largest member state in the EU in terms of population and economic output?plays a key role. Germany is an acknowledged world leader in the development of technologies for the generation of solar systems for producing electricity and heat. In particular, the German government has boosted renewable energy as share of total energy consumption by remarkable measures involving first hand attractive feed-in tariffs. Additionally, the German government wanted to create employment through supporting the development of competitive green technology in the long-term.
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