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3rd Annual Ancillary Services & Demand Response Management Forum, 11th-12th May, 2017 Frankfurt

3rd Annual Ancillary Services & Demand Response Management Forum, 11th-12th May, 2017 Frankfurt

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    The ways to achieve a better integration of flexible demand – network management and energy market objectives   Why this Conference: As the economy expands and energy needs increase, there is a need to preserve options for better generation facilities. Here the significant steps towards the development of Demand Response should be considered. As energy efficiency goals increase globally, integrated demand-side management is being driven by regulatory pressure. Demand Response has already gained the policy support in Europe. Proposed efforts to provide opportunity for new technologies, such as storage and demand response hamper consumer participation and encourage investments into flexible energy generation. Participation of active consumers and their interactions with producers in the energy system are crucial factors in order to make the electricity system more flexible. New demand on…
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WB6 Memorandum of Understanding on strengthening regional electricity market integration welcomes new signatories, 13 Mar 2017

WB6 Memorandum of Understanding on strengthening regional electricity market integration welcomes new signatories, 13 Mar 2017

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Three new signatories have joined the WB6 regional electricity market integration initiative. The Romanian transmission system operator CNTEE Transelectrica SA, the Greek transmission system operator IPTO SA and the Greek market operator LAGIE SA have signed the Energy Community’s Western Balkan 6 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on regional electricity market development. The initiative is aimed at taking steps towards electricity trading on integrated spot markets, regional balancing and regional capacity allocation. The new signatories will join the Programme Steering Committee on day-ahead market integration, whose task is to address all measures and steps needed for going-live of functioning day-ahead markets in and between the signatory countries. The WB6 Memorandum of Understanding explicitly targets the involvement of ministries, transmission system operators, national regulatory authorities and power exchanges of neighbouring EU Member…
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Albania need to address barriers for an accelerate uptake of renewables by Dr Lorenc Gordani on 14th March 2017

Albania need to address barriers for an accelerate uptake of renewables by Dr Lorenc Gordani on 14th March 2017

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At the begin of February 2017 the Parliament of Albania passed the Law on Promotion of the Use of Energy from Renewable Sources. The draft law was challenged by the investors in the small hydropower plants in the country, but in last the Secretariat’s Negotiation Centre and Dispute Resolution facilitated the negotiations between the producers and the Albanian government and parliamentary committee about the draft to be proposes in the general assemble. A compromise solution found in December 2016, served as a basis for a special provision now incorporated within the new law. Part of the compromise is that the Secretariat will be involved in the setting of the methodology for the calculation of the support scheme applicable to existing producers. The compromise found will positively affect legal certainty and…
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