Alongside its new report on the approval process for capacity mechanisms in the EU, published on 3 March, the Commission presented, on Tuesday 11 March, proposals aimed at speeding up the Commission’s approval of these mechanisms, which remunerate available capacity rather than energy production (see EUROPE 13596/7). These simplification proposals are included in the draft communication on the framework for State aid to support the Clean Industrial Deal (see EUROPE 13597/14).
Following on from the reform of the electricity market (see EUROPE 13560/27), the aim of the report and the Commission’s proposals is to simplify procedures for Member States by setting their reliability standards based on centralised calculations by the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER).
The report focuses in particular on the methodology for the European Resources Adequacy Assessment (ERAA methodology), approved by ACER.
According to the report, the Commission will ask ACER to amend this ERAA methodology as appropriate, in cooperation with the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E), “to simplify the methodology in areas that are proven to be difficult to implement”.
In addition, the Commission is proposing to simplify the State aid approval process for capacity mechanisms that follow pre-defined models, in order to reduce timeframes. EU countries and stakeholders are being consulted, and public responses can be submitted from11 March until 25 April.
The report: https://aeur.eu/f/fwo
Public consultation: https://aeur.eu/f/fwp (Original version in French by Pauline Denys)