European electricity transmission system operators (TSOs) need to spend €104 billion ($128 billion) over the next decade to upgrade or build about 52,000 km of high-voltage power transmission lines, electricity TSO body Entso-e said on in its final version of its new 10-year network development plan on 5 July.
European electricity transmission system operators (TSOs) need to spend €104 billion ($128 billion) over the next decade to upgrade or build about 52,000 km of high-voltage power transmission lines, electricity TSO body Entso-e said on in its final version of its new 10-year network development plan on 5 July.
Entso-e also confirmed that the main obstacles to project development are a slow permitting
process and lack of public acceptance of new power lines.
Entso-e’s cost projections match European Commission calculations, which estimate €200 billion will need to be spent on power and gas infrastructure until 2022.
The 10-year plan foresees around 100 project clusters financed across Europe, mainly to accommodate growing levels of renewable energy.
“The fast and massive development of renewable energy sources drives larger, more volatile, power flows over longer distances across Europe and is responsible for 80 out of 100 identified bottlenecks,” Entso-e said.
The plan urges the commission and the European Parliament to move ahead with the draft regulation on guidelines for energy infrastructure priorities, in particular provisions on streamlining permitting procedures through a three-year time cap and a ‘one stop shop’ system for handling priority projects.
Entso-e estimates extending the European grid by just 1.3% a year would support annual increases of 3% in generation and the integration of 125 GW of new renewable power capacity. This would cost consumers less than €0.02 per kilowatt hour.
Entso-e has also been mandated to propose a cost-benefit analysis methodology for evaluating priority projects – so-called projects of common interest (PCI) – which the organisation has promised to have ready after the parliament’s summer break.
Parallel to discussions of the draft infrastructure regulation in the EU Council, member states, with the guidance of the commission, have started compiling provisional PCI lists at a regional level. The commission hopes the parallel process will speed things up, with the aim of having a combined EU-level list by 2014, the year when the bloc’s new long-term budget framework begins. Entso-e’s 10-year plan will now go to ACER, the European agency of national energy regulators, for approval[./private]
Entso-e files final 10-year development plan
European electricity transmission system operators (TSOs) need to spend €104 billion ($128 billion) over the next decade to upgrade or build about 52,000 km of high-voltage power transmission lines, electricity TSO body Entso-e said on in its final version of its new 10-year network development plan on 5 July.
European electricity transmission system operators (TSOs) need to spend €104 billion ($128 billion) over the next decade to upgrade or build about 52,000 km of high-voltage power transmission lines, electricity TSO body Entso-e said on in its final version of its new 10-year network development plan on 5 July.
Entso-e also confirmed that the main obstacles to project development are a slow permitting
process and lack of public acceptance of new power lines.
Entso-e’s cost projections match European Commission calculations, which estimate €200 billion will need to be spent on power and gas infrastructure until 2022.
The 10-year plan foresees around 100 project clusters financed across Europe, mainly to accommodate growing levels of renewable energy.
“The fast and massive development of renewable energy sources drives larger, more volatile, power flows over longer distances across Europe and is responsible for 80 out of 100 identified bottlenecks,” Entso-e said.
The plan urges the commission and the European Parliament to move ahead with the draft regulation on guidelines for energy infrastructure priorities, in particular provisions on streamlining permitting procedures through a three-year time cap and a ‘one stop shop’ system for handling priority projects.
Entso-e estimates extending the European grid by just 1.3% a year would support annual increases of 3% in generation and the integration of 125 GW of new renewable power capacity. This would cost consumers less than €0.02 per kilowatt hour.
Entso-e has also been mandated to propose a cost-benefit analysis methodology for evaluating priority projects – so-called projects of common interest (PCI) – which the organisation has promised to have ready after the parliament’s summer break.
Parallel to discussions of the draft infrastructure regulation in the EU Council, member states, with the guidance of the commission, have started compiling provisional PCI lists at a regional level. The commission hopes the parallel process will speed things up, with the aim of having a combined EU-level list by 2014, the year when the bloc’s new long-term budget framework begins. Entso-e’s 10-year plan will now go to ACER, the European agency of national energy regulators, for approval[./private]