Unleashing Flexibility Needs: How Energy Storage Can Make or Break the Case for Renewables

EASE  has prepared a position paper on the Renewable Energy Directive Revision (REDIII) highlighting the great opportunity this review offers in terms of speeding up decarbonisation efforts in the energy system: EASE welcomes the 40% renewable energy targets for 2030, but calls for clearer support for energy storage to step up renewables deployment and ensure security of supply.

EASE believes energy storage can be fostered through RED III in multiple ways. Our key points:

• Development of a strategy for energy storage, through a sound methodology assessing flexibility and energy shifting needs;
• Definition of co-located storage facility and non-discriminatory treatment in tenders for RES plants;
• Support the uptake of RES + storage PPAs and ensure non-discriminatory treatment for the issuing of Guarantees of Origin and green certificates;
• Ensure full system integration through the proposed art. 20a;
• Include energy storage technologies in the efforts to decarbonise the buildings and transport sectors.

Policymakers need to act quickly in view of the urgent need to decarbonise the European energy system: renewables need to be supported by flexibility technologies and through energy shifting, which only energy storage can provide.