The course aims to provide participants with the necessary understanding on how to structure regulation for energy storage across different power markets. It covers energy storage in its multiple forms, with a technology-neutral approach when it comes to regulatory recommendations around storage. It provides participants with the necessary understanding of energy storage technologies both at utility and residential levels, and with the ability to consequently define regulatory measures that ensure energy storage in its multiple forms can be deployed in the power market, and benefit consumers across multiple dimensions, at either wholesale power market level, or at the level of ancillary services to the power grid.
Participants will consequently gain the understanding of the regulation and tools to either structure or modify regulatory frameworks to ensure energy storage can be effectively deployed, or to assess regulatory regimes in order to understand whether or not a regulatory framework is fit for energy storage. The course is therefore aimed at professionals working in and around energy regulators, as well as those interested in understanding how a regulatory regime can affect the deployment of energy storage.
This course is eligible for 5 CER credits. More information on the Certified Energy Regulator (CER).
Methodology & Agenda
The training is based on a self-paced collaborative e-learning platform that features a combination of real-time interactive presentations by the instructors, online tutoring at pre-announced times, reading material related to the course modules and case studies.
- Proposed average weekly engagement: 8-10 hours
The course will run for 2 weeks with the following weekly sequence:
- The role of storage at different levels in the power grid, its economics and business models
- The market design to sustain the use of energy storage
- The design of energy storage regulation
- Wholesale and ancillary power markets, with the aim of defining what regulatory measures should be put in place in order to foster energy storage in these markets
- Other aspects of regulation such as energy taxes and support to RES that have an impact on energy storage activities
For detailed agenda of the Regulation of Flexibility in the Power Grid training please contact the ERRA Secretariat.
CRITERIA for successful completion of this 2-week online training course:
- Submit the final test
- Fill out the course evaluation form
- Settle the full payment for the tuition fee
Course Director
Cristiano Francese has more than 10 years of work experience in the energy business. Throughout his career, he worked across regulatory and policy development, as well as commercial and business development activities. He worked closely in multiple functions with a variety of organisations from major corporations to governments and energy regulatory agencies. He supported their commercial development, business model evolution, project development, regulatory analysis among many other areas of their business. His career transitioned from working on natural gas to renewable energy and green gasses. Some of the key projects he contributed to testify this transition, as they include the Trans Adriatic Pipeline commercial strategy and development of commercial agreements, consulting assignments for the transformation of business models of natural gas grid operators towards green gasses, and lately the closure of renewable energy power purchase agreements (PPAs) with Google in Spain, as well as previous renewable energy PPAs. His training activities reflect his energy transition expertises, covering key topics of such transition, including, among others, green hydrogen business models, policy and regulation, hydrogen projects and contract structures, business models around EVs, flexibility services for the power grid.
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