“Building the next-generation mix of Energy Resources” panel

24.08.2023

“Building the next-generation mix of Energy Resources” panel

CEER President Annegret Groebel showed how CEER’s strategy for 2022-2025 relates to regulators’ efforts to see that mix come to fruition, whilst leaving no energy consumer behind.

CEER Vice President Alda Ozola shared some challenges and approaches in this for Latvia, including net accounting and net settlement systems for micro-capacity PV and incentivising demand response. Vice President Ozola noted that some of these settlement systems led to issues with covering costs in Latvia Capacity guaranty payments was another approach taken instead to keep supply connected to the grid. Reconstruction of lines was found to be expensive without a guarantee that new supply would be built. Curtailment is also sub-optimal. Therefore, Latvia is looking at the introduction of regulation to enable developers to combine resources and technologies. Finally, incentivising demand response will be an important feature of the next-generation system.