Capacity Mechanisms in the EU Energy Markets - Law, Policy, and Economics
DE HAUTECLOCQUE Adrien , SADOWSKA Malgorzata , HANCHER Leigh , HUHTA Kaisa
Product details
- Categories: Energy
- Publisher: OUP - Oxford University Press
- ISBN: 9780192849809
- Publication Date: 27/10/2022
- Binding: Paperback
- Number of pages: 512
- Language: English
Summary
Capacity remuneration mechanisms (or simply capacity mechanisms) have
become a fact of life in member states' energy markets and are one of
the hottest topics in the wider European regulatory debate. Concerned
about the security of electricity supply, national governments are
implementing subsidy schemes to encourage investment in conventional
power generation capacity, alongside already heavily subsidized
renewable energy sources. With the increasingly connected European
electricity markets, the introduction of a capacity mechanism in one
country not only tends to distort its national market but may also have
unforeseeable consequences for neighbouring electricity markets. As
these mechanisms are adopted by member states with limited
supra-national coordination as well as consideration for the
cross-border impact, they tend to cause serious market distortions and
put the future of the European internal electricity market at risk.
This
second edition will take stock of how capacity mechanisms have actually
worked so far and consider the consequences they have for the European
internal electricity market. It will include a detailed overview of
national capacity mechanisms, their implications for the EU internal
market, and will outline the nature of market failures which are likely
to occur in the European electricity markets. This edition is intended
to serve as a point of reference for regulators and policy-makers on how
to design optimal capacity mechanisms in Europe. It will be an
invaluable resource for anyone interested in energy market design,
regulation, and competition issues.
Table of contents
1:EU Policy on Capacity Mechanisms, Clemens Ziegler
2:The Regulators' View: ACER's Report on Capacity Mechanisms and the EU Internal Electricity Market, Alberto Pototschnig and Martin Godfried
3:Capacity Remuneration Mechanisms in the EU: Today, Tomorrow, and a Look Further Ahead, Tim Schittekatte and Leonardo Meeus
Part II: Economics
4:The EU Approach to Resource Adequacy, Francois Beaude
5:Energy Market Design with Capacity Mechanisms, Christoph Riechmann, Jens Perner, Sam Street, and Vikram Balachandar
6:Different Approaches for Capacity Mechanisms in Europe: Rationale and Potential for Coordination?, Fabien Roques and Charles Verhaeghe
7:Resource Adequacy in Decarbonizing Power Systems: Lessons Learned from Both Sides of the Atlantic, Carlos Batlle, Paolo Mastropietro, Pablo Rodilla, and Ignacio J. Pérez-Arriaga
8:The Generation Mix, Price Caps, and Capacity Payments, Bert Willems
Part III: Law
9:Capacity Mechanisms and State Aid Control: A European Solution to the 'Missing Money' Problem?, Leigh Hancher
10:The Antitrust Perspective to Capacity Mechanisms, Adrien de Hauteclocque and Ma/lgorzata Sadowska
11:Free Movement of Goods in the Labyrinth of Energy Policy and Capacity Mechanisms, Peter Oliver and Kaisa Huhta
Part IV: Case Studies
12:Austria, Thomas Starlinger, Elisabeth Wielinger, and Harald Kröpfl
13:Belgium, Wouter Vandorpe
14:France, Guillaume Dezobry
15:Germany, Kai Uwe Pritzsche and Katharina Reinhardt
16:Greece, Antonis Metaxas
17:Ireland, Seamus Byrne
18:Italy, Francesco Maria Salerno
19:The Netherlands, Marinus Winters and Tiemen Govers
20:Norway, Cathrine Ramstad Wenger, Frode Støle, and Jens Naas-Bibow
21:Poland, Ma/lgorzata Sadowska
22:Spain, Iñigo del Guayo
23:United Kingdom, Peter Willis