The work carried out as part of the REEL.i Chair (Renewable Energy Economics and Law for industry) analyses the economic and legal issues associated with the development of renewable energies, storage and flexibility solutions and the stability of electricity systems faced with the deployment of decentralised and intermittent energy.
RESEARCH AREAS
This multi-partner Chair is based around three priorities:
Energy communities and electricity networks: anticipating the costs required to reinforce the distribution network, determining the strategies that can be used to reduce these costs (demand and supply balancing, deployment of storage, etc.), anticipating regulatory and economic changes for stakeholders, etc.
Valuing storage: assessing the market value (energy, reserves and capacity) of storage technologies at different levels (the power system as a whole, a network node, a production and/or consumption unit).
Impact of guarantees of origin and carbon prices: determining the optimum strategies for players faced with these mechanisms, understanding how they work, increasing their impact on the energy transition and anticipating future developments.
In addition to the three priority areas, the Chair is also looking at a solution for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which involves including car-sharing in a public transport network. Here, the work is supported by the MuCAR consortium, which brings together researchers from several scientific fields.
Other research themes may be tackled, in connection with the deployment of renewable energies and the decarbonisation of energy systems, depending on the subjects that emerge as part of future collaborations with new partners.
