Powering Europe - European Wind Energy Association

SUmmary
The lack of properly functioning markets is a barrier to
the integration of wind power. Barriers include the low
level of market access for small and distributed wind
power generators and the lack of information about
spot market prices in alternative neighbouring markets
during the allocation of cross-border capacity. In
order for a power market to be truly competitive, sufficient
transmission capacity is required between the
market regions.
Further market integration and the establishment of
intra-day markets for balancing and cross border trade
are of key importance for power market efficiency in Europe
when integrating large amounts of wind power. In
this way, the market will respond more adequately to the
characteristic properties of wind energy.
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The adoption of the third Liberalisation Package in
2009 is a very important step towards European market
reform, encouraging much more competition and
a higher uptake of renewables. One especially useful
element of the Package is its clear list of tasks at
European level for TSOs and energy. Creating network
codes in consultation with the market stakeholders
should help establish market rules that put variable
renewables and wind power on a level playing field
with other forms of generation.
The European Commission has decided, along with
the European energy regulators and other stakeholders,
to develop a target model and roadmap for the
integration of electricity markets. The outcome of
this work shall directly feed into a future framework
Powering Europe: wind energy and the electricity grid
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