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

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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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www.beuc.eu joerg.muehlenhoff@beuc.euenergy@beuc.eu

Thank you very much for your attention.