Arera: ‘Urgent transition also solicited by markets with cost uncertainty’

“We give the name of ecological transition to a great cycle of transformations that we have decided to undertake consciously, in the light of our ability to study the present and imagine the future and not as a result of an evident immediate technical or economic advantage. has characteristics of uniqueness in human history, at least comparable with the uniqueness of the events we try to avoid. Humanity as a whole has had to ask itself how to direct its action to ensure that its children have the opportunity to develop one. our own. Our own children have begun to remind us of that. ” This was stated by the president of the Arera, Stefano Besseghini in the course of his annual report to the Chamber on the state of services and on the activity carried out by the Authority. “Today a new dimension, the temporal one, has been joined to all this. A sense of urgency which is certainly driven by the results of scientific research but which is strengthened by the pandemic event. A sense of urgency that is being solicited in recent days by the trends in the energy markets that demonstrate the cost of uncertainty “.” In both the Euro-unitary and the national plan, energy communities will be an important tool – he says – for the direct involvement of consumers and territorial realities in the decarbonization process . It is important that this instrument is fully implemented, in order to maintain an orderly functioning of the markets and to ensure, as required by European legislation, that the end customer retains his rights, also with a view to administrative simplification “. These requirements, explains the president of the Authority, “to which the virtual model to which the Authority has implemented responds, in advance of the terms provided for by the European legislation in implementation of decree-law no. 162/19 and which allows the customer final to manage their own supply regardless of participation in the community “. The final electric consumer, Besseghini emphasizes, “will also have to deal with the very ambitious development objectives of electric mobility, which will entail the need to recharge the vehicles. The impacts will be relatively limited on the growth of energy needs but, in the absence of targeted initiatives , potentially very relevant on the growth of the peaks of power withdrawn and therefore on the investments for the expansion of the grid. For this reason, it is crucial that forms of ‘adaptive charging’ (or if you want smart charging) are developed, an important form of participation active demand from the markets and the supply of flexibility services. The establishment of a technical table with associations involved in various capacities on the subject led to the development of an experiment that began on 1 July: owners of electric vehicles can charge the vehicle at 6 kW at night and on holidays, under certain conditions, without r ask for increases in power compared to the 3 kW contract typical of domestic customers, with real savings “.