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Current Research Projects
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· THINK Coordinator: Robert Schuman Center / EUI, FSR
Website: eui_THINK
Project Publications: here
· GAS TARGET MODEL
Start date: November 2010Expected date of completion: Spring 2011Coordinator: Florence School of Regulation
Project Partners: Clingendael
Project Presentations: here
The Florence School of Regulation (FSR) and Clingendael International Energy Programme (CIEP) carry out research on a Target Model for Gas Market Integration to provide input to the European debate.
This debate gained considerable momentum at the 18th Madrid Forum in September 2010, where stakeholders invited the European Commission and regulators to explore, in close cooperation with system operators and all stakeholders, the interaction and interdependence of all relevant areas for ACER Framework Guidelines and ENTSOG Network Codes and to initiate a process establishing a gas target model.
· INCENTIVE REGULATION
Start date: November 2010 Expected date of completion: October 2011 Coordinator: FSR
Project Partners: RTE, Microeconomix
Network regulation is playing an active role in a context of restructuring energy system for long term transition to a smart grid. In this context, regulating network companies’ activities should give them the right incentive for considering both economic efficiency objectives and non economic goals to reach global system efficiency. The project aims first at assessing of relevant approaches to incentive regulation that have been proposed and applied nowadays. Second, we look at their implementation in practice by analyzing some practical cases, based mainly on European countries’ experiences. The project would conclude by giving recommendations on what appears to be the best regulation approach for the electricity network industry.
·E.N.TRA.N.C.E.
Start date: December 2010 Completion of the project: June 2012
Coordinator: Robert Schuman Center / EUI, FSR Co-financed by: The Directorate General for Competition of the EC
The European Networking and TRAining for National Competition Enforcers (E.N.TRA.N.C.E.) aims at training 27 judges from different EU Member States in the field of competition law. In particular, the focus of the training is on the private enforcement of competition law, as well as the enforcement of competition law in network industries. E.N.TRA.N.C.E. is structured as follows: three days of residential training in Florence, (3rd – 5th November 2011), a final one day workshop in Florence (April 2012), 6 months of e-learning activities on the online platform between the two events. Finally, at the end of the project an edited book concerning the national experiences in the private enforcement of the competition law will be published including. The book will include contributions from the speakers and the participating judges. EN.TRA.N.C.E. is co-financed by a grant of the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission.
· GAS SECURITY of SUPPLY
Start date: January 2011 Expected date of completion: Spring 2012
Coordinator: Loyola de Palacio Chair Project Partners: FEEM, Clingendael, Wilton Park Conferences
The LdP annual research project focuses on "A New EU Gas Security of Supply Architecture": How should European institutions and regulation adapt and respond to increasing challenges to European gas security of supply such as high energy prices, the occurrence of regional supply shortfalls and the increasing reliance on imports from third countries? The LdP Chair wants to contribute to the current debate on new rules and a European approach on gas security of supply. Four workshops organized by the LdP Chair in cooperation with its three project partners will take place between May and December 2011. They will look at the external energy relations of the EU in energy matters, infrastructure and solidarity issues with their respective underling legal and economic regulation. The workshops will host academics and stakeholders (energy ministries, European Commission, regulators and the industry). The project will deliver a stock taking report and a set of recommendations on the needed adaptation.
· CARBON MARKET AND RENEWABLE ENERGIES IN EUROPE
Start Date: January 2011 Expected Date of completion: December 2011
Coordinator: Loyola de Palacio Chair
An abiding question in climate policy is the extent to which a price on carbon provides an incentive for the deployment of renewable energy technologies. This question takes on added importance with the consideration of sectoral trading or crediting proposals as potential offset mechanisms whether under the Clean Development Mechanism or a successor or as part of the EU's Emissions Trading Program. The present project is examining the experience with renewable energy technology in Europe where a uniform carbon price has co-existed for some years with highly variable national policies providing more direct incentives for deployment. The objective of the research project is to determine the relative roles of the carbon price and the more direct incentives in the deployment of renewable energy technology in Europe.
· OPTIMATE
Start date: 1 October 2009
Expected date of completion: autumn 2012.
Coordinator: Technofi Project Partners: ELIA, EnBW Transportnetze AG, REE, RTE, 50 Hertz Transmission, ARMINES, K.U.Leuven, RISOE, University of Madrid-Comillas, University of Manchester, EUI-FSR
Financing institution: 7th Framework Programme EC
OPTIMATE is a collaborative research and demonstration project co-funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme (DG Energy). The project aims at developing a numerical test platform to analyse and to validate new market designs which may allow integrating massive flexible generation dispersed in several regional power markets. OPTIMATE will therefore contribute to the construction of a pan-European electricity market. First, the development of the open simulation platform will support the simulation of interconnected power system operation interacting with electricity markets: the results are comparative benefit analyses of several market design options. Next, the simulation platform will be extensively used to assess new electricity market design options to help reaching the 2020 EU27 targets. It will recommend promising technical and regulatory solutions moving towards a “virtual single European transmission grid” as well as regional balancing processes, considering the zone diversity of market features and of generation mixes.
The research and demonstration activities are performed by a consortium of five Transmission System Operators (TSO) and six Research and Development performers, under the technical management of RTE (the French TSO) and the overall coordination of Technofi, also in charge of the dissemination activities.
· REALISEGRID
Coordinator: RSE Financing institution: 7th Framework Programme EC
The context: The European electricity system is facing major challenges to implement a strategy for a reliable, competitive and sustainable electricity supply. The development and the renewal of the transmission infrastructure are central and recognised issues in this strategy. Indeed, the transmission system is a complex and strongly interconnected infrastructure that offers a wide range of benefits like reliability improvement, promotion of competitive electricity markets and of economic growth, support for development of new generation and for exploitation of renewable resources.
The goal: The mission of REALISEGRID, a new project co-funded by the European Union (EU) within the 7th Framework Programme, is to develop a set of criteria, metrics, methods and tools to assess how the transmission infrastructure should be optimally developed to support the achievement of a reliable, competitive and sustainable electricity supply in the EU. The project moves along three axes:
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identification of performances and costs of new technologies aimed at increasing capacity, reliability and flexibility of the transmission infrastructure and preparation of a roadmap for the incorporation of new transmission technologies into the electricity networks -
definition of long term scenarios for the EU power sector, characterized by different evolutions of demand and supply, with the goal to assess the impact on future electricity exchanges among European countries -
implementation of a framework to facilitate harmonisation of pan-European approaches to electricity infrastructure evolution and to evaluate the overall benefits of transmission expansion investments. This cost-benefit analysis framework will be applied to test specific transmission projects listed in the EC “Priority interconnection plan”.
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