Electricity storage is the main candidate, at least in the medium term, to meet the large flexibility needs that decarbonising energy sectors are beginning to experience. Although merchant investments in storage have been ...

Since their early implementation, capacity mechanisms have overlooked, or at least paid insufficient attention, to the firmness dimension of the security-of-supply problem. These regulatory instruments have not only to ...

After decades of strong opposition, several European countries are now in the process of implementing some kind of capacity remuneration mechanism (CRM). Unfortunately, these national initiatives seem to aim at energy ...

Este documento presenta la alegación a la “consulta pública previa relativa a la implementación de mecanismos de capacidad en el sistema eléctrico español” de la Secretaría de Estado de Energía del Ministerio para la ...

Italy is currently finalising the design of its capacity remuneration mechanism. The provisional capacity payment, introduced in 2004, is to be replaced by a market-wide reliability option scheme. This paper provides an ...

Non-conventional renewable energy technologies are already a key element in the expansion of many power systems. These resources, whose deployment was fostered through different types of support mechanisms in the last ...

This case study for educational purposes analyses the design of the electricity distribution concessions in Odisha, India, and the current practices that the concessionaire, Tata Power, has implemented to face the challenges ...

The Covid-19 pandemic and the consequent lockdown exacerbated energy poverty and insecurity worldwide. Many governments introduced emergency measures to protect energy consumers during confinement. This article reviews and ...