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The Roles of Engie with regard to the Lanscape of Demand-Side Management –
Pierre Caroff, Loïc Donnay de Casteau, Valentijn Demeyer, Mathilde Catrycke
2 ENGIE’S VIEW ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF DEMAND-SIDE
MANAGEMENT
To contribute to the growth of DSM and to reach the ambition of becoming a leader in
the energy transition, Engie has played an active role in the development of the
currently available products for demand response in Belgium, but also in the design of a
future system as envisioned by the Transmission System Operator and the national
Regulator. Besides this, Engie has also participated in the cross-national working group
initiated by the USEF foundation, which aims at the effective implementation of demand
aggregation in different market models to deliver an optimal flexibility for all parties.
In 2016, Belgium is already a well-developed market when it comes to participation of
demand response in balancing (e.g. R3 ICH, R3DP) and adequacy (e.g. Strategic
Demand Reserve) markets. However, Engie is convinced that the participation of
demand response in those markets, and new ones such as congestion management will
continue to increase in the coming years, as a result of the increasing flexibility needs
linked to the development of intermittent energy sources. This will be possible through
innovative technologies, better knowledge of energy market on customers’ side and
their willingness to actively manage their energy consumption and, of course, support
from suppliers and aggregators.
It is Engie’s opinion, that demand-side management is intrinsically a commercial activity
in a liberalized market and that it should not be locked into one specific framework. It
should be based on open commercial negotiations between market players. We
support the clear definition of roles and responsibilities for more efficiency and further
integration of DSM. However, over-regulating the development of this activity will bring
market distortions and discriminations on the energy market. Therefore, Engie pleads
for simple and efficient processes and a level playing field between the different players
and technologies now participating to the flexibility, adequacy and congestion markets.
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