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by pas 667 days ago
as far as I understand there's a market based solution. producers bid prices for time slots (consumers too, but that's less important from the perspective of a solar power plant) and if they win the contract is live, they need to input for that slot. if they miss (go over or under) they get paid less (and of course a penalty is possible too, theoretically it's the same)

this incentivizes better capacity and availability forecasting for solar installations, and preserves the usual dynamics of the open energy market.

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the problem is with these super small ones, where initially states just let people connect it, because it's green, yey. (but now DSOs started to make connecting waay harder. and regulators are investigating, eg. in Spain. [0])

of course the non-residential installations already usually need aFRR capability. (eg. this is the case in Hungary.)

and there's already a market for "reserves" in the EU. (but the interconnection rate is below the target 15% as far as I know. but still, there are intra-state markets, etc.) and we can see that when solar is high the reserve prices are surging. [1]

[0] https://caneurope.org/content/uploads/2024/04/Rooftop-Solar-...

[1] https://gemenergyanalytics.substack.com/p/european-power-res...