The European Power System – Decarbonization and Cost Reduction: Lost in Transmissions? 22 January, 2012
Posted by Willy De Backer in renewable energy, Energy Infrastructure, Smart Grid, Decarbonisation, Electricity.trackback
The French Institute for International Relations (IFRI) has produced one of the best analyses of the inconsistencies in European energy policy.
"The objective of the Internal Electricity Market is to bring competitive electricity prices to end-users, but as these prices are linked to the composition of the power generation mix, it is easy to see that there is a clear discrepancy in the rationales pushing for corridors aiming at transporting RES across Europe and a market-driven logic that will favor the building of transmission lines based on a competitive power generation mix."
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