The Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) issued a press release on Wednesday 23 February announcing its decision not to approve or amend the first pan-European assessment of the adequacy of the European Union’s electricity resources (ERAA) carried out by the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E).
The objective of this assessment is to monitor the risks to Europe’s security of electricity supply and to identify adequacy issues.
The assessment must therefore describe the expected level of security of supply for a ten-year horizon.
While the regulators believe that the ERAA assessment represents a significant improvement on the previous exercise (the Mid-Term Adequacy Forecast 2020), they have identified several shortcomings in the report that they believe compromise its accuracy and reliability.
ACER in particular criticises the lack of consideration of the value of demand-side response.
It therefore invites ENTSO-E to take its recommendations into account in the next evaluation (ERAA 2022).
ACER’s decision was welcomed by the Smart Energy Europe association. “We cannot afford anymore to underestimate the value of demand side resources in energy system-wide methodologies and modelling scenarios”, it says.
See the ACER decision: https://aeur.eu/f/gz (Original version in French by Damien Genicot)