10 regulatory asks for increased digital solar

One week after the SolarPower Dialogues where European energy leaders explained how solar is driving the digitalisation of the European energy transition, SolarPower Europe has published its “Regulatory asks on solar and digitalisation”.

Professor Bernd Engel, SolarPower Europe’s Digitalisation Task Force leader and representative of the SMA Solar Technology Board for grid integration stated: “The right regulatory framework is an essential foundation for the development of digital solar. We need policy-makers to accelerate the deployment of smart grids, reform incentives for network operators and reward the speed and accuracy that solar can provide in grid support services.”

This deliverable was coordinated by Detlef Beister, Business Development Manager at SMA Solar Technology. Commenting, he said: “We want to see policy-makers use digitalisation to develop better flexibility markets so that solar can properly take part, and accelerate the deployment of smart metering functionality in a way that does not discriminate against solar prosumers.”

The ten regulatory asks were identified as part of an exercise to see what policy changes were needed to aid the transition to a fully digitalised solar offering and a digital energy system.

This follows the publication of the “Solar industry’s seven commitments on digitalisation”, which was a pledge from the sector as to what it would do from its side. An in-depth report on the market opportunities for digitalised solar will follow later this year.

The aim of the Digitalisation and Solar Task Force is to ensure that the solar PV sector in Europe makes the most of the opportunities arising from the digitalisation of the energy system.

About SolarPowerEurope

SolarPowerEurope offers the direct involvement to its members to shaping positions on policy topics and is in charge of positioning the solar sector on overarching policy issues, keeping a dialogue with relevant stakeholders and partners from neighboring sectors, experts and policy-makers.

SolarPowerEurope also works on EU-backed projects aiming at further developing and integrating solar power within the European Union, such as “Cheetah”, whereby the project aims to joining Europe’s Research & Development (R&D) efforts in support of the PV industry ; “Crowdfundres”, aiming at contributing to the acceleration of the renewable energy growth in Europe by unleashing the potential of crowdfunding for financing renewable energy projects ; “PV Financing” whereby the project goal is to analyze the links between innovative PV business models and facilitate the access to financing ; Solar Bankability, aiming to increase trust from investors, financers and insurance companies by establishing a common practice for professional risk assessment based on PV technical and financial due diligence ; Market4RES, focusing on electricity market design to support a more efficient integration of Renewable Electricity (RES- E) into the pan-European electricity system, in line with the 2020 objectives and their follow up towards the 2030 targets.…

Press Release and full list of members and mission objectives at www.solarpowereurope.org

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