ECA INSIGHT >> Fast & furious: fast frequency response services as the key to rev up battery investments The business case for Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)[1] in Europe is determined by revenue stacking, ie the ability of operators to obtain...
ECA INSIGHT >> A regulatory puzzle: Inflation, RAB and WACC Regulators often view the inflation of the Regulatory Asset Base (RAB), and the related choice of a real versus nominal Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC), as modelling technicalities to be buried...
ECA INSIGHT >> Low carbon development and affordable energy access are complementary objectives (to a point) In 2015, all United Nations Member States adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Among the 17 goals, SDG 7 targets access to affordable and...
ECA INSIGHT >> Batteries – generation or transmission assets? Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are on track of becoming an integral component of electricity markets around the world. Although investments for grid scale BESS are still at relatively low...
ECA INSIGHT >> Utility cost recovery: tackle inefficiency before increasing tariffs Raising tariffs to cost recovery levels is often considered a prerequisite of infrastructure sector reforms. While immediate tariff increases are often publicly unacceptable and...
ECA INSIGHT >> Two approaches to tariff design in the electricity sector – how different are they? Since deregulation of the supply market in the UK over two decades ago, the regulator has tended to leave it to the supply companies to decide the design of the...
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