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Current challenges in completing the European Internal Energy Market

EPP Hearing

European Parliament, 6 June 2013 Ann-Katrin Schenk, Policy Officer

European Federation of Local Energy Companies

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Who is CEDEC?

• European Federation of Local Energy Companies
• 1500 local and regional energy companies
• Electricity and heat generation
• Electricity and gas distribution grid & metering operators
• Energy (services) suppliers
• Mostly in public hands
• 85 million electricity and gas customers & connections
• > 350 000 employees
• Annual turnover ca. 120 billion
• Enhancing competition in the energy market

www.cedec.com

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Infrastructure

Bringing distribution grids into the focus

• Solutions:

Smart distribution grids, energy storage, smart devices, electric vehicles

• €480 bn investments in European distribution grids needed to 2030
• Incentivise investments in modern infrastructure

– Adapt regulatory frameworks for investments in innovation – EU funding

• National Action Plans for swift deployment of smart grids

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> 80% RES connected to distribution grids

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Retail markets

Creating a level playing field

• Smart grids enable system flexibility, active consumer participation and

energy efficiency through new services and actors

• Data management and data communication is mission-critical to

guarantee system stability

• Recognition of increasingly active role of DSOs:

– Responsible for security of supply: enhanced system services to balance local generation and demand – Neutral market facilitator, delivering data to all market players in non- discriminatory way, while safeguarding consumer data privacy

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Consumers

Improving markets for consumers

• Activation of consumers

– Demand response

• New contracts, products and services

– Prosumers

• Matching self-production and consumption

– Citizens projects

• Shareholders of local generation
• Support for Vulnerable consumers

– Social and Energy Policy – Energy Efficiency

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Ecological awareness and climate protection Income return Enhancement of quality of life in

• wn city

Local added value Decreasing the dependence on energy imports

Citizen engagement

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Energy Transition

Towards a sustainable EU energy system

• No level playing field for generation

technologies → Phase out subsidies for fossil fuels and nuclear energy

• Trigger deployment of renewables

– Gradual convergence of support schemes but leave room for Member States to exploit all regional and local potentials and resources – Ambitious, binding GHG emissions and RES targets for 2030

• Urgent fix of ETS needed

– Backloading to quickly adress oversupply of 2 billion EUAs – Increase 2020 GHG reduction target to 25-30% – Permanent retirement of surplus allowances

European Federation of Local Energy Companies

Thanks for your attention! CEDEC Ann-Katrin Schenk Ann-Katrin.Schenk@cedec.com

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