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Existing legal qualifications useful to microgrids. In terms of the electricity legislation in the UK, the 1989 Electricity Act is the most important text. In it, the relevant definitions and regimes are set for electricity market actors. As there is nothing on microgrids in this act as such, we looked for the existing legal qualifications that could fulfil the three criteria used in section 3.1: small and local, flexibility use and temporary islanding. Article 4 (1) of the 1989 Electricity Act prohibits any person to undertake generation, transmission, distribution or supply activities without a licence. These licences are granted by the competent authority [205], and it is specified that a distribution licence holder cannot also hold a generation or supply licence [206]. This is the DSOs’ unbundling rule. The distribution licence regime does not provide for an unbundling exemption with regards to “less than 100 000 connected customers” as is proposed under EU law and detailed in section 3.1.2. However, article 5 of the Act provides that exemptions from the obligation to hold a licence can be granted. The conditions for such exemptions are presented in the Electricity (Class Exemptions from the Requirement for a Licence) Order 2001. Schedules 2, 3 and 4 present the exemptions for generation, distribution and supply, respectively. These can be combined in order to create small size VIUs. Schedule 2 of the Order indicates the generation exemptions. Class A generation exemptions define small generators as: Persons […] who do not at any time provide more electrical power from any one generating station than— (1) 10 megawatts; or (2) 50 megawatts in the case of a generating station with a declared net capacity of less than 100 megawatts; disregarding […] power supplied to […] a single consumer who occupies premises which are on the same site as the premises where the generating station is situated and who consumes all the power provided to him from that generating station at those premises or supplies all or some of such. In schedule 3, Class A focuses on small distributors. Such actors “do not at any time distribute more electrical power than 2.5 megawatts for the purpose of giving a supply to domestic consumers”. Finally, schedule 4’s Class A exemption about small suppliers targets those “who do not supply any electricity except electricity which they generate themselves and who do not at any time supply more electrical power than 5 megawatts of which not more than 2.5 megawatts is supplied to domestic consum...
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Existing legal qualifications useful to microgrids. The Danish Electricity Supply Act regulates the production, transport, trade and supply of electricity. Its last integrated version, dating from 6 February 2020, does not mention microgrids. Therefore, we looked for the existing legal qualifications that could fulfil the three criteria used in section 3.1: small and local, flexibility use and islanding. The Danish Electricity Supply Act defines what a distribution network (Distributionsnet) is and specifies that it is a network intended to supply electricity to an indefinite number of customers [258]. The distribution network is operated by a licensed DSO (Netvirksomhed)[259] which is legally unbundled from generation and supply companies [260]. Therefore, although not prohibited, a Danish DSO does not have a size or localness component. Flexibility may of course be used but temporary islanding is not part of the current regime. According to the Electricity Supply Act, the Minister of Climate, Energy and Utilities may decide to exempt DSOs from the unbundling rules if the DSO (alone or together with other DSOs within the same VIU) has less than 100 000 connected electricity consumers [261]. In other words, this is only an option, subject to the Ministry’s decision. It should be noted that in any case, accounting unbundling still applies, even if such exemption is granted [262]. As a consequence, although it is interpreted a bit more strictly than in EU law, the “less than 100 000 connected customers” exemption exists in Danish law and may be used to create VIUs. Yet, the islanding issue remains. With regard to isolated systems, these are mentioned in a somewhat old version of the Electricity Supply Act only to require the competent ministry to adopt rules on the matter [263]. As explained in section 3.1.3, there is not much for potential microgrids in this legal qualification anyway. Apart from these two possibilities, we surprisingly have not found a definition nor a regime for CDSs.
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Existing legal qualifications useful to microgrids. In Portugal, the Decree-Law (DL) 29/2006 regulates the production, transport, distribution and supply of electricity. It does not mention microgrids. Therefore, we assessed the existing law in order to see whether there are any provisions that could fulfil the three criteria used in section 3.1: small and local, flexibility use and temporary islanding.
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