Green electricity exchange
The model of the green electricity exchange was developed by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Erneuerbare Energie Vorarlberg eV (AEEV) in 2002.
In 2005, the pilot project in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg was able to tap 401 green electricity customers such as private individuals, municipalities and companies as well as 169 green electricity producers (SMEs) with an average annual production of 86,918,000 kWh. The current intention is to build up an Austria-wide, non-profit network and to develop the relevant organizational and administrative structures.
The innovation of the model consists in the exchange functionality. With the green energy exchange, individuals, municipalities and regions can support regionally active producers or participate in their systems through an additional payment linked to their electricity consumption. This is how a new market is indexed. Green electricity producers can advertise their product themselves and benefit directly from it. This creates an additional and purely market-driven incentive to invest in green electricity systems.
background
The aim of all countries is to increase the share of green electricity . Environmental policy measures require the promotion of local green electricity production. Most European countries have therefore switched to guaranteeing statutory feed-in tariffs for green electricity production. In part for reasons of competition, these fluctuate and are often lower than the cost of production; there is therefore no investment incentive. The model of the green electricity exchange gives the producer the opportunity to advertise his own production and obtain a majority from it. With the green electricity exchange, a private-sector funding instrument is to be created alongside state control.
The model
The model of the green electricity exchange is managed as a "Creative Commons License" and is continuously adapted. The model is described as follows:
Goal setting
The green electricity exchange is a private-sector instrument to strengthen green electricity production and is based on consumption-dependent additional payment for electricity by the consumer. The green energy exchange promotes projects and systems that generate electricity from renewable energy. The projects and systems eligible for funding are selected at the request of the operator at the green electricity monitoring body (independent organization). After successful testing and acceptance, the project or system is listed on the green electricity exchange. The intensity of consumer demand determines the level of funding for a plant or project. Joint or additional advertising work by green electricity producers, electricity traders and environmental organizations is intended to create a movement for the production of electricity from renewable energy, which makes an active contribution to climate protection through the increased use of the green electricity exchange.
Participants in the model
a) A consumer is the natural or legal person who purchases an add-on product (additional product) for green electricity from an electricity trader that has been approved by the regionally responsible green electricity monitoring center. The associated additional payment based on electricity consumption is used to promote green electricity production. With regard to billing for the add-on product, the customer concludes an agreement with the electricity trader. The collection is made by the electricity trader, who forwards the payments to the regional green electricity monitoring office and manages them there.
b) The electricity trader supplies the customer with electricity and, on behalf of and on behalf of the regional eco power exchange, concludes the agreement with the customer regarding the add-on product for green electricity. Billing and collection of the customer's voluntary surcharge for the add-on product is also carried out via the electricity trader's electricity bill. The electricity trader is a contractual partner of the regional green electricity monitoring office.
c) Operators are natural or legal persons who run a project to strengthen green electricity production (new construction and expansion, revitalization). Every operator of production plants for the production of green electricity or plants for reducing electricity consumption is entitled to submit an application for inclusion in the green electricity exchange to the regionally responsible green electricity monitoring office. The application is made via the electricity trader with the operator agreement. The criteria for the inclusion of operators of green power plants in the green power exchange are: 1) a legally recognized green power plant and 2) an agreement with an electricity trader who is also a green power licensee or belongs to the green power balance group.
d) The regional green electricity monitoring body is an organization that manages the financial contributions of customers independently and geared towards the common good, registers supply and demand, as well as subsidy payments depending on customer demand and the available projects and systems transparent, published criteria. She also advises electricity traders and operators on how to use the green electricity exchange.
Process organization green electricity exchange
Flow of funds: The additional payment freely agreed between the customer and the regional eco power exchange based on the electricity consumption is billed to the electricity trader's general electricity bill. The electricity trader forwards the majority payments to the regional green electricity monitoring center without any deduction. In accordance with the agreement with the consumers and the transparent and published criteria, this forwards the voluntary payments minus the administrative costs (maximum 20%) to the operators.
Advertising measures for the green electricity add-on product: The electricity trader offers the add-on product for green electricity to all customers for all types of electricity use with all its forms of customer information. Operators can also attract customers for an electricity trader's add-on product and benefit from it themselves.
License terms
The eco power exchange was developed by ARGE Erneuerbare Energie Vorarlberg (AEEV) and the word and image mark was protected by patent (Reg: AM8510). The authors and the rights holder (AEEV) make the eco power exchange model (brand and business model) available to every natural and legal person for use under a Creative Commons license. The underlying Creative Commons license allows the license agreement to be adapted to regional requirements. The model of the eco power exchange remains valid even if the terminology in the text is adapted to local circumstances, but the meaning is retained (e.g. provider - electricity trader). With the free use under the same conditions, the licensor (AEEV) wants to achieve greater dissemination, ongoing further development and an increase in the use of the product for consumers and distributors. The more widespread it is, the greater the supply of green electricity systems for promotion by green electricity consumers. The application of the eco-electricity exchange model and the use of the logo of the eco-electricity exchange are subject to the Creative Commons license.
See also
- Citizen power plant
- Energy policy
- Power exchange
- Green electricity
- Virtual power plant
- Business ethics
- Merit order - starting with the lowest marginal costs , power plants with higher marginal costs are switched on until demand is met. On the electricity exchange, the last bid to be accepted determines the electricity price . The price of electricity is therefore determined by the most expensive power plant that is still needed to meet the demand for electricity
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Individual evidence
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