CERRE Research Fellow, Bert Willems, has co-authored an article with Juulia Zhou on setting correct initiatives for the Clean Energy Package (CEP) and demand response (DR).
The study builds on the CERRE Energy & Climate report “Smart consumers in the internet of energy“, co-authored by Bert Willems, along with Monica Giulietti, Chloé Le Coq and Karim Anaya.
The authors describe how recent EU regulation affects DR, highlight some of the remaining legal and economic regulatory challenges, and present three different scenarios to tackle these challenges. They conclude that network regulation has to adapt in order to enable the efficient development of the market-based, consumer-centred approach for DR outlined in the CEP.
Specifically, network tariffs have to become more cost-reflective to provide correct incentives to market participants, and the regulation for distribution system operators (DSOs) may need to be fine-tuned to reflect their new roles.
