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Batteries: The jack of all trades

A power system based on renewable energy needs flexibility to balance demand and supply. Storing electricity is one way of providing flexibility to the system. Electrical storage can be defined as any device that can store electrical energy and make it available when required.

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The EU electricity network codes (2019 ed.)

The reader is guided through the sequence of electricity markets in place in the EU: forward markets, the day-ahead market, the intraday market and finally the balancing markets.

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A New World: The Geopolitics of the Energy Transformation

The growing deployment of renewables has set in motion a global energy transformation with significant implications for geopolitics.

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The Life and Death of the Utility Death Spiral

The so-called death spiral is not necessarily a result of disruptive competition from resources at the customer side of the meter, but from the inherent design of rate structures. This article highlights the value of the grid as a call option for consumers and suggests rate design as a cure.

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Classical grey areas since the start of the internal market

Classical grey areas since the start of the internal market Leonardo Meeus and Pradyumna Bhagwat In this chapter we explore the border between the grid and the market by revisiting three power system debates.

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Off-Grid Solar Market Trends Report 2018

This report is the fourth in a series of biennial assessments of the global off-grid solar market undertaken by the World Bank Group through its Lighting Global Program.

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Renewable energy auctions: Cases from sub-Saharan Africa by IRENA

Renewable energy auctions have emerged as an important mechanism to drive the adoption of renewable sources for power generation.

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China Power System Transformation – Assessing the benefit of optimised operations and advanced flexibility options

China Power System Transformation has a two-fold objective. First, it provides a summary of the state of play of Power System Transformation (PST) in the People's Republic of China ("China") as well as a comprehensive discussion of PST internationally.

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Status of Power System Transformation 2018

Across the world, change is accelerating in power systems driven by the advent of low-cost, abundant wind and solar energy, the rise of distributed energy resources and increasing digitalization. These factors are leading to a structural shift in the way power systems are best planned and operated. In particular, they call for increased flexibility of power systems.

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