-investment and inform closure choices and thus contribute to generation adequacy For load, mid-term contracts hedge energy (input …

Long-term energy contracts have featured prominently in many decisions of the European Commission to support the … opening of the electricity markets. Contracts were seen to foreclose the market hence the Commission comprehensively unwound … reflected in policy discussions. For example, most analysis of capacity mechanisms contrast the energy only spot market (day …

Renewable energy installations are rapidly gaining market share due to falling technology costs and supportive policies …. Meanwhile, the energy price crisis resulting from the Russian-Ukrainian war has shifted the energy policy debate toward the … question of how consumers can benefit more from the low and stable generation costs of renewable electricity. Here we suggest a …

Comparisons of resource assessments suggest that sufficient renewable energy resources are available to allow for large …-scale deployment of renewable energy technologies. Economic analysis identifies barriers to the adoption of renewable energy sources …

Gas-fired power plants constitute a direct and important link between the gas and the electricity sectors and thus … between the Target Models for electricity and gas. As the need for a flexible operation of gas-fired power plants will … flexible trading arrangements. For the electricity markets, options to advance intraday and balancing market design are …

EU Member States increase deployment of intermittent renewable energy sources to deliver the 20% renewable target … respect to wind energy, where wind forecast uncertainty decreases significantly in the final 24 hours before actual generation … energy ; balancing ; intraday …