On Monday 24 October, the European Commission announced that it has given the go-ahead to a German aid measure to stabilise the electricity gird by reducing large consumers’ energy consumption.
As part of the planned measure (Verordnung zum abschaltbaren Lasten, ‘AbLaV’), German grid operators can sign flexible weekly contracts with clients for up to 1,500 megawatts of capacity and can therefore reduce these clients’ consumption remotely and quickly in exchange for compensation.