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How to facilitate engagement of domestic consumers in the electricity market? BestRES workshop 27 September 2016 Jörg Mühlenhoff
How to facilitate
engagement of
domestic consumers
in the electricity
market? BestRES workshop
27 September 2016Jörg Mühlenhoff
demand
response
feed in electricity
and/or heat
storage
energy
efficiency
self-
consumption
self-
generation
Prosumer activities
Prosumer
Energy Market
Design> wholesale markets
(power purchase agreements,
spot markets, futures,
ancillary services,…)
> retail markets
demand
response
feed in electricity
and/or heat
storage
in energy markets
energy
efficiency
self-
consumption
self-
generation
Prosumer activities
= consumer actively participating Prosumer
Energy Market
Design> wholesale markets
(power purchase agreements,
spot markets, futures,
ancillary services,…)
> retail markets
demand
response
feed in electricity
and/or heat
storage
in energy markets
energy
efficiency
collectively
individually
self-
consumption
• aggregators
(e.g. ESCOs, cooperatives)
• social enterprises
(e.g. housing companies)
• community energy projects
= protected by existing consumer rights
+ new additional prosumer rights
• households
(owners, tenants)
• institutions
(e.g. local authorities)
• small enterprises
self-
generation
Prosumer activities
= consumer actively participating Prosumer
Energy Market
Design> wholesale markets
(power purchase agreements,
spot markets, futures,
ancillary services,…)
> retail markets
demand
response
feed in electricity
and/or heat
storage
in energy markets
energy
efficiency
collectively
individually
self-
consumption
• aggregators
(e.g. ESCOs, cooperatives)
• social enterprises
(e.g. housing companies)
• community energy projects
= protected by existing consumer rights
+ new additional prosumer rights
Prosumer ≠ undertaking or licensed supplier. Only negligible energy business activity.
• households
(owners, tenants)
• institutions
(e.g. local authorities)
• small enterprises
self-
generation
Prosumer rights: Fair access to markets
(right to self-generate, priority grid access & dispatch,
right to participate in DSR), free choice for individual or collective
market participation, fair & transparent network tariffs reflecting real grid use,
equitable access to support schemes, prohibition of retroactive changes
Prosumer activities
= consumer actively participating Prosumer
Support consumers’ choice
for renewables
Consumers’ access
to solar self-generation
A. How grid access and use are
guaranteed to self-generating
consumers
B. How consumers’ excess
electricity production is treated
C. Which typical risks consumers
face when starting a self-
generation project
Solar self-generation policies
Solar self-generation policies
A bike lane for prosumersp
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, wik
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A bike lane for prosumers
How to support self-generators, the cyclists of electricity
markets:
- Dedicated long-term strategy.
- Priority grid access and dispatch.
- Fair remuneration.
- Allow tenants to access solar self-consumption.
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