Annex I Workshop on Balancing the Variability in Renewable Electricity Supplies held Fredericia, Denmark, 20th-21st October 2009
Some fifty experts and national delegates from 13 countries met in this, the latest in the series of ENARD’s topical Annex I Workshops, hosted by Energinet.dk in their Fredericia Headquarters, Denmark, over the one and a half Tuesday 20th and Wednesday 21st October 2009.The Workshop comprised a series of expert presentations, general discussion and dialogue, supplemented by more structured discussion via three Working Group sessions. The latter three Working Groups were tasked with reporting back to the Workshop with conclusions and recommendations for future action.
The one and a half days of presentations, discussion and dialogue succeeded in providing a wealth of information and data for consideration by the ExCo, in relation to the very considerable challenges which are increasingly to be addressed, in relation to network balancing in the context of projected future large scale penetrations on intermittent renewable energy sources.
Various specific solutions technologies and methodologies were discussed in detail, with a clear consensus emerged in terms of the requirement to adopt a truly holistic approach, embracing the most appropriate solutions mechanisms and fully exploiting the complementarities between supply side and demand side measures. In the latter context, in particular, it was recognised that various specific market and regulatory challenges are likely to require specific attention, in order to realise the full potentials of some of the solutions proposed, in practice.
The feedback from the Workshop was subsequent considered by the ENARD ExCo, at its follow-on 7th ExCo Meeting.