This chapter discusses how trends in technology translate into novel business models, which in turn require dedicated transactional agreements as well as adjusted regulation. Regulators and policymakers are taking on the challenge of facilitating the integration of electricity from renewable sources and leveraging the potential of digitalization in the energy sector. This furthers the evolution of regulation from the aim of reducing the cost of network provision to catering for a cost-increasing transformation of the network service. The cases of Germany and the Netherlands serve to illustrate: one showcasing incremental change and the other the need to leap ahead and reinvent to some extent. These national cases illustrate measures limiting grid users’ access to scarce network capacity, incentivizing their flexibility and encouraging network operators to innovate grid operation beyond the technical realm. The future for this sector, however, appears to take shape on a new, European level.
In this article, we contribute to the legal scholarship on the interaction between EU data governance and electricity legislation, analysing the impact the Data Act could have on the sharing [...]
On 14 July 2021, the European Commission adopted a series of legislative proposals implementing its plan to achieve climate neutrality in the EU by 2050. These included an intermediate target [...]
This article provides a fresh, interdisciplinary perspective on the European Union’s electricity market design (EMD) reform. In policy as well as in law, much of the literature on the EMD [...]
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