French regulator the CRE is seeking feedback by end-February on the prospects for electricity storage, including whether market players would be interested in a regulatory sandbox. Battery storage is making less headway in France than in California, Germany or the UK. CRE believes this is largely because France has a large amount of hydro power and relatively little intermittent capacity. However, it wants to be certain it is “factors intrinsic to the current French market” that are the behind the slow take-up and not regulatory, tariff and network access barriers. The CRE also wants others’ assessments of the contribution storage should make to system flexibility, and whether there are regulatory barriers to small or large scale batteries (above and below 1 MW). It has identified three areas for attention – a simpler contractual framework and network access terms, access to different market mechanisms, and the right price signals.
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