Public launch of the EASAC report on Dedicated Electricity Storage

Large scale electricity storage is making a come-back because it can contribute to the flexibility which is needed by system operators to manage the increasing penetration of variable renewable electricity generation on the grid. At the same time, the interest of householders in small scale storage for self-consumption has already led to more than 40,000 small household PV plus battery systems being installed in Europe since 2013, mainly in Germany.

EASAC's team of scientists nominated by Europe's 28 national science academies has been working for two years to develop an independent view for EU policy makers of the value of dedicated storage on electricity grids from a scientific perspective. Their report concludes that the value of storage is system dependent and that it can contribute to balancing, reserves, capacity and generation adequacy as well as congestion management. However, in electricity markets, it must compete with flexible generation, demand response, interconnections, and curtailment. 

Draft Programme of launch event   

• 12:00 light lunch available] 
• 12:20 Welcome to the Academy
  Prof William D'haeseleer, Member of the Royal Academy KVAB
• 12:25 Introduction to EASAC
  Prof Eva-Mari Aro, Vice President of EASAC
• 12:30 The working process and scientific findings of the project
  Prof Mark O'Malley, University College Dublin, Ireland (Working Group Chair)
• 12:50 Comments and response from the European Commission DG Energy,
  Tudor Constantinescu, Principal Adviser to the Director General, DG Energy
• 13:00 Panel discussion chaired
  Dr William Gillett, Director of EASAC Energy Programme
• 13:35 Comments and response from the European Parliament
  Claude Turmes MEP
• 13:45 Open discussion of the panel with the audience
• 14:15 Closing remarks
  Maria da Graca Carvalho, European Commission
• 14:20 Networking coffee
• 14:30 End of Event

Panel members

• Frauke Thies, Smart Energy Demand Coalition (SEDC)
• Patrick Clerens, European Association for Storage of Energy (EASE)
• Paul Giesbertz, European Federation of Energy Traders (EFET)
• Laurent Schmitt, European network of transmission system operators for electricity (ENTSO-E)
• Andrew Ebrill, Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER)