#62025CC0036Advocate General Opinion on Financial Compensation in Renewable Energy Redispatching
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This legal opinion discusses how renewable energy companies should be compensated when their production is adjusted by grid operators for system stability. It affects energy producers by clarifying that compensation should aim to cover potential revenue losses but doesn't guarantee full financial neutrality. Companies may need to assess if compensations offered align with their expected revenue losses.
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Key Changes
- Clarifies compensation criteria for non-market-based redispatching
- Emphasizes no guarantee for full financial neutrality
- Broad discretion for system operators in calculating compensation
Obligations
What this law requires
The AG concludes that Article 13(7) of Regulation (EU) 2019/943 provides that generators dispatched downwards by the system operator are entitled to financial compensation for revenue lost due to redispatching, aiming to ensure they remain indifferent to being redispatched.
Article 13(7) requires that the assessment of compensation must consider benchmarks to determine if compensation is 'unjustifiably low or unjustifiably high', which must be based on clear criteria.
The AG discusses the requirement for national measures to ensure that compensation for redispatching is reliable and not subject to arbitrary limitations based on priority dispatch status of generators.
The AG indicates that financial compensation must be comprehensive enough to cover foregone financial support as part of compensating generators, which should not lead to a financial disadvantage from redispatching.
The AG highlights that any measures taken by Member States regarding downward redispatching must comply with the stipulated conditions under Article 13(7), ensuring that redispatching is used only as a last resort.