On Thursday 29 April, the European Commission opened a public consultation on the delegated act to establish the Union renewable development platform (URDP).
This platform is provided for in the EU Renewable Energy Directive or RED II (2018/2001) and aims to facilitate statistical transfers of quantities of renewable energy.
These are agreements that aim to transfer a quantity of energy from renewable sources from one Member State to another through statistics (a physical transfer is not necessary). Therefore allowing EU countries that do not meet their binding national renewable energy targets to “buy” renewable energy from those that exceed their target.
“The URDP will be an online tool with information on the progress of Member States towards their contributions, their interest to buy or sell statistical transfers, and under which conditions (e.g. volume, price, link to actual project etc.) as well as supporting material, such as model agreements”, the Commission’s draft delegated act states.
The consultation is scheduled to end on 27 May.
Read the draft delegated act: https://bit.ly/2QHlW7m (Original version in French by Damien Genicot)