Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne calls the new service an “intervention offer to increase consumers’ energy consumption” (IZP service). The aim is to help PSEs manage the system during periods of excess generation above demand. This is not an offer for all households, for example, unless there are aggregators on the market who can bring together a larger group of consumers who can increase their electricity consumption.
– The IZP service can be provided by energy consumers who have the technical ability to periodically change the demand for energy and electricity. Service providers, at the request of the transmission system operator, can periodically increase demand and receive remuneration. The purchase of the service by the operator can contribute to limiting the non-market reduction of renewable sources – emphasizes the PSE.
There is a trade-off. The renewable energy obligation will be higher than now, but lower than planned.
A regulation on the level of the obligation to redeem green certificates has been published in the Official Gazette. Instead of the 12% proposed by the Ministry of Climate and Environment, this level will be 8.5% in 2025. It is currently 5%. The obligation to define this obligation several years in advance, which was important for the renewable energy industry, has also been abandoned.
The IZP service can be provided by any customer connected to the electricity grid whose technical capacity to provide the service has been positively verified by the operator of the system to which it is connected and has a special ORed certificate, which is issued for installations that are not households.
Energy consumers may supply IZP directly to PSE SA if they have 1 MW or more of potential to increase power. Smaller customers may also provide the service, but only through an intermediary entity that represents the customers in relations with PSE.
