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🚨 ACER points to the pressing need for electricity system operators to maximise the electricity transmission capacity for trading with neighbours 📘 Today, ACER publishes its 2024 Market Monitoring Report (#MMR) on capacities for cross-zonal trade of #electricity (including the progress in reaching the so-called ‘70% requirement’) and congestion management. ❗ ACER highlights the urgency for #Transmission #SystemOperators (#TSOs) to meet their obligation of making 70% of #transmission capacity available for #CrossBorder #ElectricityTrading by the end of 2025. 🤔 What are ACER’s key findings? Already in April 2024, ACER alerted the European Parliament and European Commission that there is much at stake in not meeting the minimum 70% requirement by the end of 2025 and that there are still significant challenges ahead to do so. Today’s report by ACER finds that: 👉 The EU #PowerGrid is increasingly congested (remedial actions like redispatching rose by 14.5% in 2023). The cost of managing this congestion in 2023 was €4 billion. 👉 Some TSOs in highly meshed areas of the #EU #power #grid made available, on average, between 30% and 50% of the physical capacity of certain network elements in 2023, thus far from reaching 70%. 👉 There are still significant benefits from improving how cross-zonal capacity is calculated in the EU, as demonstrated by the introduction of flow-based market coupling in the Core region. Furthermore, the recent report by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre forecasts that power grid congestion will significantly worsen in the coming years, even in an optimistic grid development scenario. ℹ️ How to meet the 70% minimum requirement by the end of 2025? Meeting the 70% requirement needs a unified approach – each Member State’s actions (or inactions) impact others and ultimately EU consumers. ACER calls for the swift implementation by Member States and TSOs of the 3 tools foreseen by EU rules to reach the 70% minimum requirement: ⚙️ TSOs to swiftly implement coordinated processes to first calculate capacity and then manage congestion. Moving toward a more regional approach will ensure that the Member States causing loop flows will bear their cost, allowing for more capacity to be made available. ⚙️TSOs to undertake targeted grid developments, focusing on most congested areas of the grid. ⚙️Improve the bidding zones configuration: if consistently unable to meet the 70% requirement, better align the bidding zone borders with where the structural grid congestion occurs. 📅 What’s next? 10 July 2024: ACER-JRC webinar. Register (for free) to learn more about the topic 👉 https://lnkd.in/ghgZp9iN Read more about this ACER report: https://lnkd.in/geQyytGu

🚨 We want to hear from you! 🗣 ACER is seeking input on revising the Annex of the #REMIT Implementing Regulation. 🔎 On 7 May 2024, the revised #REMITRegulation (Regulation on Wholesale #Energy Market Integrity and Transparency) came into force, tasking the European Commission to update #DataReporting requirements by 8 May 2025. Why is ACER consulting? 💡 Following the publication of the revised REMIT, ACER has received numerous requests from #stakeholders seeking clarification on the REMIT Implementing Regulation, especially its Annex, which outlines the information to be reported to ACER. In this context, ACER is launching a #PublicConsultation (🔗https://lnkd.in/dTvB5aDF) to gather stakeholders’ inputs on #DataCollection aspects and field descriptions. The feedback received will inform the Agency’s proposal for data reporting under the revised REMIT.   📅 Have your say by 6 September 2024. ⏭️ Based on the feedback received, ACER aims to publish an Evaluation Report by mid-October 2024. Read more and participate 👉 https://lnkd.in/d52uQNnF

🌍 ACER’s director outlines possible ways to enhance power grid capacity at today’s #Energy Infrastructure Forum. In the opening session of the 10th Energy Infrastructure Forum, ACER Director Christian Pilgaard Zinglersen joined Kadri Simson (the European Commission’s Energy Commissioner), Lars Aagaard (the Danish Minister for Climate, Energy and Utilities) and other high-level representatives to discuss a fast-track approach to EU’s net zero energy infrastructure and progress of the EU’s #GridActionPlan. The ACER Director, Christian Zinglersen, highlighted 🔄 ‘Efficiency first’ also applies to grids: Electricity prices are key for citizens and business. Since network #tariffs are a big part of electricity prices, there is a need to mitigate any increase in network tariffs by using existing and future grids to their full extent. The ACER Director also pointed to the soon-to-be published ACER report on capacities for cross-zonal trade of #electricity and congestion management, and the need to maximise the grid capacity made available to trade electricity. 💥 As an alternative to building new lines, smart grid enhancing technologies (if adequately incentivised) could bring 20-40% of additional capacity and a 35% reduction in conventional expansion costs by 2040. Here, Mr Zinglersen pointed out that remunerating grid operators based on costs only may not always be effective while benefit-based incentives show strong potential. ☀❄ Greater system flexibility is needed. Barriers to demand response and distributed energy resources need to be removed. Targeted measures by governments, monitoring and digitalisation by DSOs can help. 🤝 If countries are more willing to rely on neighbours, fewer flexible resources could be required to help run the electricity system. This requires deepened trust among #MemberStates. Rigorous enforcement of the EU energy framework and greater coordination and planning can help. 🔗 Follow the 10th Energy Infrastructure Forum here at https://lnkd.in/eipdXUSP Check out some of our recent publications: ➕ ACER-FSR report on incentivising efficient investments in electricity grids 👉https://lnkd.in/dpCvuqSc; 🌿 ACER-CEER position paper on #AnticipatoryInvestments to accelerate electricity grid expansion for the #EnergyTransition 👉 https://lnkd.in/dDWmNdjT; ⚡ ACER’s opinion on the minimum #CrossZonal capacity requirements 👉 https://lnkd.in/dRex8ykU; and 💡 ACER’s market monitoring report on key developments in the #ElectricityMarket 👉 https://lnkd.in/dWJSfFCU

🗣 ACER and the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) are organising a webinar to present and discuss the key findings from their 2024 publications: 👉 ACER’s yearly monitoring report on #CrossZonal #transmission capacities and the progress of #MemberStates in reaching the minimum 70% requirement (to be published on 3 July 2024); and 👉 JRC’s future-looking assessment on the evolution of #congestion management in the current #EU #ElectricityMarketDesign (#EMD). 📅 Wednesday, 10 July 2024 🕑 14:30 - 15:30 CET 💻 Online Register (for free) here 👉 https://lnkd.in/ghgZp9iN EU Science, Research and Innovation

📝 ACER releases its report on the #Austrian #GasTransmission tariffs proposed for 2025 by E-Control, the National Regulatory Authority (#NRA) of Austria. What is the report about? 🔎 E-Control’s new methodology takes into account the changes in network patterns resulting from the 2022 #energy crisis. What does ACER recommend? 💡 ACER assessed the compliance of the proposed methodology against the requirements of the #EU #NetworkCode on Harmonised Transmission Tariff Structures (NC TAR) and provides the following recommendations to E-Control: ✔️ Evaluate the network topology and use patterns. For instance, the NRA should take into account the distance #gas flows need to cover to supply different #NetworkPoints into the methodology. ✔️ Explore the methodologies that best align with the network’s characteristics and usage, including selecting appropriate cost drivers and other instruments such as flow scenarios. ✔️ Compare the results of the Capacity Cost Allocation (#CAA) assessment to identify the most suitable methodologies for the Austrian #TransmissionNetwork. The NRA should investigate whether high CAA outcomes indicate potential #CrossSubsidisation between intra-system and cross-system network usage. What are the next steps? ⏳ E-Control shall consider ACER’s recommendations in its next tariff consultation, scheduled for completion by the end of 2024. 🔗 Read more https://lnkd.in/d3BbB7AU Access all ACER reports on national tariff consultation documents 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gpPSCty8

📑 ACER unveils outcomes from its roundtable meeting on the revised #REMIT Regulation’s new reporting obligations. 🗣️ On 29 May 2024, ACER held a roundtable meeting to discuss the implications of new #DataReporting obligations introduced by the #revisedREMIT Regulation (Regulation on Wholesale Energy Market Integrity and Transparency). The event brought together different stakeholders: Associations of Energy Market Participants (#AEMPs), Organised Market Places (#OMPs), and Registered Reporting Mechanisms (#RRMs). 💡 Participants debated how to ensure compliance with the new provisions and raised questions on their implications. What are the next steps? 🗓️ ACER will run a public consultation from 28 June 2024 to 6 September 2024 to collect #stakeholders’ feedback on its proposals for #DataReporting under the new REMIT Implementing Regulation🔗 https://lnkd.in/enSYjDk4 ⏭️ The inputs received will contribute to shaping ACER’s proposal to the European Commission, which will adopt the revised REMIT Implementing Regulation by 8 May 2025. Read more 🔗https://lnkd.in/dB6zcirq

📢 Just out! 📑 ACER publishes today its Consolidated Annual Activity Report (CAAR) for 2023, which details the regulatory activities it performed in relation to: 📌 the ongoing integration of #Europe’s #electricity and #gas markets; 📌 its market surveillance under the Regulation on wholesale #EnergyMarkets #integrity and #transparency (#REMIT) to protect against market abuse. 🔎 The CAAR assesses the extent to which ACER achieved the objectives of its 2023 work programme. The report was adopted on 19 June 2024 by ACER's Administrative Board, following the favourable opinion of ACER's Board of Regulators. What were the main developments in 2023? 🌍 In 2023, ACER successfully adapted to a rapidly changing landscape marked by the #EnergyCrisis, the evolving geopolitical circumstances and the ongoing pursuit of #Europe’s ambitious #GreenDeal goals. These developments brought to prominence ACER's role in #EU #energy regulation and in monitoring #EnergyMarkets to ensure that they are trustworthy. Key focuses included: ✔️ Promoting a competitive and integrated #EU #energy market, supporting #decarbonisation, and enhancing energy #SecurityOfSupply. ✔️ Providing insights on the #European #EnergyMarket through many reports and engagement, including its #MarketMonitoringReports. ✔️ Detecting suspected market abuse and promoting consistency in #REMIT’s application. Read more 🔗 https://lnkd.in/drXJSByu Access previous editions 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dH9W5fdr

🚀 Get ready to power up your week with us! Join us on Monday for the ACER webinar on the amendments to the #ElectricityGrid connection network code ⚡ You will hear all about: 🔦 ACER's proposed amendments to the network code on #GridConnection requirements for high voltage direct current systems and related power park modules (NC HVDC); 🔦 the purpose, process and timeline of the amendments; and 🔦 how to comment on these amendments through ACER's public consultation. 🌟 Don't miss this chance to have your say: 🎤 Dial in on Monday, 24 June 2024, 9:30-11:00 CET 👉 https://lnkd.in/dqbMN74j 📥 Submit your views on the topic by 8 September 2024 👉 https://lnkd.in/d-xTm3d2

CEER and the EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) publish today their Guidance Paper on Electricity Transmission and Distribution “Smart-Grid” Performance Indicators. Released ahead of the 2024 Energy Infrastructure (Copenhagen) Forum (27 June 2024), the paper: ✔️Sets the framework of smart-grid performance indicators. ✔️Offers an overview on the responsibilities of network operators. ✔️Describes the potential applications of network performance indicators and how they support EU energy targets. ✔️Explains the relationship between input and output performance indicators and defines responsibilities for each. ACER and CEER invite feedback on the guiding principles by 28 July, after which the aim is to develop concrete smart-grid Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for both Transmission and Distribution System Operators. Download the paper: https://www.ceer.eu/2411 #EnergyInfrastructure #SmartGrids #Electricity #EnergyPerformance #EU #EnergyTransition #Sustainability #GridOperators #EnergyEfficiency #SmartGridKPIs #EnergyPolicy