Topic of the Month: Gaspool dispatching
Heiko Bock is the senior manager responsible for dispatching in Gaspool. And it was five years ago that Andreas Wieting, now GUD’s head of Networks Operations, handed the dispatching over to Gaspool. ener|gate Gasmarkt talked to both of them about the experiences with the dispatching within Gaspool.
ener|gate Gasmarkt: How has dispatching developed over the last five years?
Mr Wieting: How did it all start? With the launch of Aequamus and Gaspool, we developed within Gasunie Deutschland a system control energy unit in 2008/2009.
ener|gate Gasmarkt: Aequamus, the joint L-gas market area of the north German TSOs…
Mr Wieting: At that time we bought and sold system- control energy only day-ahead. For the withinday management we only used flexibility products.
Framework conditionsFuture of the energy market
The electoral term is almost over. The current energy discussions are no longer dominated by concrete action but by strategic proposals for the next government. The big disadvantage: Of course, nobody knows which parties will form the next government, but CDU/CSU will most certainly be among them. But the energy and climate policy of a government of CDU/CSU with the liberal party, FDP, will be different from the policy of a “black” (CDU/CSU) and “green” (Green Party) coalition or a “Jamaica” coalition (black, green, yellow – for the Liberals). Even a continuation of the “grand” coalition is feasible. But what are the key proposals for any new government and what are the roles of natural gas and renewable gas in these proposals? At the end of June, the Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi) itself published a conclusion paper “Power 2030, Long-term trends – Tasks for the coming years”. One major task is an adjustment of the system of duties and taxes to relieve electricity and strengthen the burden on fossil fuels. This, the paper argues, is the prerequisite for a larger role of power in the heating and mobility sector, hence the concept of sector coupling. ener|gate Gasmarkt has repeatedly pointed out the major importance this adjustment of the distribution of burdens from tax and duties plays in the current energy discussion. But concrete proposals are still missing. This is also true for the latest BMWi paper.