Fsr Energy & Climate

http://fsr.eui.eu Energy Today no.022 Saskia Lavrijssen, Professor of economic regulation and governance of network industries Tilburg University, explains the new concept of prosumers in electricity markets. Interview by Adrien de Hauteclocque, Legal Secretary (Référendaire) of Judge M. van der Woude at the Court of Justice of the European Union (General Court), Luxembourg, and an Adviser of the Loyola de Palacio Chair Recorded 2 June 2015, at the FSR, 2015 Summer School on EU Energy Law and Policy, in Florence, Italy. “The prosumer, that is an energy consumer, and I especially refer to households, that do not only use energy but also generate energy” “At this moment the current national and European frame works are still based on the idea that the consumer only uses energy… however now in the future more and more consumers will also feed in energy to the grid…”