EASE reply to Public Consultation to ACER on the introduction of voluntary templates for power purchase agreement contracts in the EU energy market.
December 2024 / Consultations & Advocacy
The European Union's Flexibility Needs Assessment Methodology
Significant challenges lie ahead to make the electricity system more flexible to integrate variable renewables and achieve a cost-efficient path to meet the European Union’s decarbonisation objectives. The deployment of energy storage technologies will grow significantly and play an indispensable role in this transformation. A deeper understanding of evolving flexibility needs and the role of storage in addressing them is essential.
The Electricity Market Design Reform (EMDR) tasked the DSO Entity and ENTSO-E with developing a methodology to analyse flexibility needs. A draft proposal of this methodology is currently under consultation before its submission to ACER for possible amendments and approval. Once finalised, TSOs and DSOs will apply the methodology to analyse flexibility needs, producing results that will inform national reports prepared by National Regulatory Authorities or other designated entities. Based on these reports, Member States will set indicative targets for non-fossil flexibility, including specific sub-targets for energy storage. Developing a robust methodology is crucial to ensure policymakers receive accurate and actionable insights.
EASE’s response provides detailed comments on specific Articles of the draft methodology, while broader remarks are addressed in the last question addressing general feedback.
Energy Storage Europe's position paper, "Ensuring System Stability in Europe: The Role of Energy Storage in Providing Inertia", focuses on how the EU can implement a cost-effective and technologically neutral approach to procuring inertia. It also outlines how such an approach can be firmly embedded within a harmonised European methodology for assessing and monitoring inertia needs across synchronous areas.
This position paper, prepared by the Energy Storage Europe Association, assesses the system value of long-duration energy storage, identifies barriers to deployment, and proposes recommendations to better align European energy, industrial, and financing frameworks with the long-term flexibility needs of a fully decarbonised power system.
In this position paper, the Energy Storage Europe Association calls for a shift from today’s “first-come, first-served” queue system to a more efficient, strategic, and transparent framework that recognises the unique value of energy storage for reducing congestion, enhancing flexibility, and making better use of existing grid infrastructure.
Energy Storage Europe Association has published its Position Paper on Improving Permitting Procedures, highlighting the urgent need to streamline, harmonise, and modernise permitting frameworks for energy storage across the EU. Europe needs a fast, fair, and future-proof permitting framework to unlock the estimated 200 GW of energy storage required by 2030.
