EC contract tender opening: assessment of integrating electricity from renewable energy sources to the electricity grid and to the electricity market in the 27 EU Member States
Short description of the contract:
The purpose of the contract is to obtain a comparative study of the present situation and future plans, a description of the regulatory framework and identification of best practices and recommendations regarding grid and market integration of electricity from renewable sources.
The objective is to assess the current legal, technical and operational framework of grid and electricity market related issues in the EU-27. The study should carry out a comparative analysis of the current framework in each Member State and identify the key elements of the integration of electricity from renewable energy sources to the internal electricity market. Fulfillment of the provisions of Directive 2001/77/EC should be assessed, as well as the ability to carry out new requirements, including the achievement of more ambitious targets in this sector and the fulfillment of new requirements (Article 16) defined by Directive 2009/28/EC on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources.
The assessment of the legal framework should cover aspects such as:
(a) the application procedure of new RES-E plants for connection to the grid;
(b) access rules to the grid;
(c) dispatching rules of electricity from renewable energy sources;
(d) obligations of systems operators and RES-E producers regarding the costs associated with the connection, and the sharing and bearing of these costs by producers and systems operators; and
(e) tariffs charged to RES-E producers for transmission and distribution of electricity.
The study should analyse how the technical (operation of the grid) and market (the setting and rules of the electricity market) rules encourage or hinder the integration of electricity from renewable sources (if relevant, by type of technology or geographical location). The challenges of the integration of variable and non-storable resources to the grid and to the electricity market should be analysed more in detail. The study should assess solutions (identifying best practices) and make recommendations responding to these challenges.
Contracting authority:
European Commission, Directorate-General for Energy
Service contract/Contract notice/Open procedure: 2010/S 123-187174
Duration of the contract:
Duration in months: 12 (from the award of the contract).
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
20.8.2010 (16:00)
Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.
Conditions for opening tenders:
Date: 30.8.2010 (15:00)
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: yes.
A representative of each tenderer may attend the official opening.
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