Addressing Barriers to Renewable Energy Integration (CE4EUI Secretariat)
A recent study conducted by the Clean energy for EU islands secretariat has shed light on challenges facing the electricity systems of EU islands in their transition to renewable energy.
The study provides recommendations and best practice examples for achieving the security of supply needed for sustainable economic development.
It includes 10 representative case studies from EU islands and groups of islands. These include:
- Rhodes and Kos-Kalymnos islands in Greece
- The Aeolian Islands in Italy
- Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, and Lanzarote in Spain’s Canary Islands
- Azores and Madeira islands, Portugal
- Aruba and Bonaire in the Dutch Caribbean
- La Réunion in the Indian Ocean and French Polynesia from the French islands.
The result of the study is 19 recommendations including best practices and existing publications which further clarify their possible implementation.
The recommendations are grouped into those that focus on technical solutions for grid operations and management, and those that address the necessary regulatory and policy frameworks to support the islands’ energy transition. The recommendations are directed towards Member State governments, electricity system operators and regulatory agencies. Each island system is unique in its way and hence Member State stakeholders can pick and choose actions from recommendations which most apply to their islands and their respective electricity systems. While the case studies focused on the non-interconnected islands, most of the resulting recommendations can be applied to all islands and some to remove areas on the mainland.
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