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CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION IN THE ELECTRICITY SECTOR -THE NORDIC EXAMPLE
In the very beginning …
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Pearl Street Stationstarted generating electricity on September 4, 1882, serving an initial load of 400 lamps at 85 customers.
The development of interconnection capacity in the Nordic region
3Source: Annual report 1998, Nordel
The history of Nordel
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2000-2009
TSOs
1992-2000
Competition- unbundling
1963-1992 Vertical integration
Pre- Nordel interconnections
Nordel ENTSO-E, RG Nordic
Source: Sweco, 2013
Nordel’s organisation in 1992
5Source: Nordel
The electricity transmission grid in the Baltic Sea Region
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How is the decarbonisation of power supposed to play out?
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2010 2020 2030 2050
50%
50%
20%
80%
80%
20%
3.3701 TWh
4.900 TWh
Source: ECF – Roadmap 20501: Eurostat (online data code: nrg_105a)
EU-27, Norway and Switzerland
RES Thermal
New wave of electrification - from 20 to 35/40% of end use
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The context – interaction has grown more complex over time
Basic electrification
+ Play a major role in industrialisation/automatisation
+ A tax base
+ Open up for competition
+ Resource efficiency seen from society’s perspective
DriversTarget forced on marketsPricing emissionsSubsidiesEmission standardsGovernanceOrganising marketsInfrastructurePublic demandTechnology breakthroughs
ObstaclesLow-quality interventions adding costsPolitical inability to defend long-term benefitsfrom “cost-attacks” by pressure groupsLack of governance capacity to handle the transitionLack of support from the main streamInability to handle interdependenciesVolume disease problemsA weak Europe