Table 4: New and adapted remuneration instruments for storage and pumped-storages SHP (in italic: not within RET facilitation)
Instrument |
Description |
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STORAGE |
Feed-in remuneration: peak premium |
A premium is paid for production during peak demand and could be linked to the EEX spot market price, the numbers of yearly production hours and/or regularity in production (e.g. daily 2 hours of lunch). |
|
Labelled green electricity: quota for peak production |
Customers buying labelled green electricity have to be supplied with peak labelled green electricity as well according to their consumption profile. |
|
CO2 compensation: scheme for peak and flexible production |
When thermal power plants compensate their GHG emissions, they have to compensate according to their production profile (base and/or peak; flexible production). |
PUMP.-ST. |
Sustainable alpine mobility: internal remuneration |
Ski resorts use their infrastructures to produce electricity from RETs to cover their demand. Water in reservoirs is used within pumped-storage schemes when not needed for artificial snow making. Other RETs provide for the pumping energy. |
BOTH |
Ancillary services: green services |
Based on the percentage of electricity from RETs in the electricity mix, at least the same percentage is asked from RETs for ancillary services. Add pumped-storage SHP only once superfluous electricity from other RETs available for pumping. |
|
Ancillary services: regional/local approach |
Distributed plants contribute at lower voltage level to decentralised ancillary services. |
|
Regional integration of wind and solar power |
Intermittent production plants have to provide regional storage capacities (e.g. for time shifting). SHP can be combined with wind and solar power plants to a virtual power plant remunerated over an adapted feed-in remuneration scheme. The increase in quality of weather forecasts will improve the coordination between intermittent production and storage facilities. |