The Internal Energy Market: Challenges and Opportunities Tor Eigil Hodne, Statnett EU-Office EEA-seminar, 10 June 2011

Internal Energy Market (IEM) 1952 – 2014

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Coal and Steel

Oil crisis

→ The Internal Market

Climate Change

→Climate targets

The Lisbon Treaty

Europe 2020

Fukoshima

2014: IEM through EEA

Statnett as a TSO (in IEM)

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•Meet electricity demands

•Security of supply

•Provide transparency for

consumers

•Ensure non-discrimination

•Collect congestion rents and

payments

Competitive

Secure Sustainable

The Internal Energy Market – through the EEA

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1. Interconnectors

2. Governance

3. Acceptance

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1. Governance

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Connecting Europe..?

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Not in my Back Yard (NIMBY)

Nowhere on Planet Earth

(NOPE)

Build Absolutely Nothing

Anywhere Near Anything

(BANANA)

EEA – Challenges (preliminary)

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• Acceptance

• Complexity

• Accelleration

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