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10. As electricity generation assets, hydropower plants should operate in a competitive and unbundled market environment. Pumped storage ownership claims by TSOs are truly unjustified and go against the provisions of existing Directives 46 EURELECTRIC strongly rejects the attempt by some European transmission system operators (TSOs) to claim property of pumped storage plants by referring to their role as service providers, as has for instance been the case in Spain or Italy. Any rebundling attempt should be rejected; there is no legal ground or justification for any such request. In addition, pumped storage hydropower plants are integrated into conventional storage hydropower systems and only generation companies have the necessary knowledge and capacities to operate such systems. 11. Pumped storage shall not be treated as consumption in setting grid fees Pumped storage’s main purpose is to stabilize the power system both in very short term timescale with in minutes (ancillary services) and in a little longer time scale (several hours) to balancing varying generation or load. Hydropower contributes to the stability of the system and should hence not been seen as a consumer. 46 See Directive 2009/72/EC 60
More must be done NOW to fully exploit Europe’s hydropower potential. EURELECTRIC therefore urges policymakers on a European and national level to: • Promote awareness among policymakers and the wider public of hydropower’s key role and its unique multiple assets for the electricity system. • Promote with all possible means the sustainable development of remaining hydro resources. • Address on a case-by-case basis the trade-offs between implementing existing legislation and further developing hydropower and pumped storage. • Develop efficient interconnections and grids to ensure large-scale system benefits from pumped storage for the entire European electricity system. • Harmonise grid fees for pumped storage power plants on a European level. • Reject all attempts by TSOs to claim property of pumped storage plants. • Ease permitting procedures. • Ensure that the European Commission’s DG Energy, DG Climate and DG Environment each have a specific contact for hydro who is aware of the specificities of this technology, and promotes it in the European interest. • Harmonize the implementation of water and energy related EU policy instruments • Formalize cross-sector collaboration between DG Energy, DG Environment and DG Climate on hydropower, a technology involved in generation of renewable energy, energy storage, system security, water storage, quantity and quality management, climate change adaptation and climate change mitigation. 61
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Hydro in Europe: Powering Renewable
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The Union of the Electricity Indust
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION..
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1. INTRODUCTION Hydropower is a mat
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Page 25 and 26: plants are designed to use either a
Page 27 and 28: There are two types of storage hydr
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Page 31 and 32: Pumped storage facilities work as a
Page 33 and 34: Table 4 highlights some advantages
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Page 49 and 50: The long life span of a hydro plant
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