Market Access for Smaller Size Intelligent Electricity Generation (MASSIG)

Small and medium size distributed generators (DG), especially those utilizing renewable energy resources (RES), become more important for the electricity supply in the European Union. Currently most of those technologies receive significant incentives or flat funding independently from the momentary needs of the electricity markets and grids. On a long term, however, these technologies need to be integrated into the electricity market and become more independent from subsidies. Already today there are a number of local approaches for marketing RES and DG in alternative ways, like integration into Virtual Power Plants. With the MASSIG project such innovative solutions will be studied from a European perspective, taking into account national conditions. Technical as well as economic aspects for new marketing concepts are investigated; especially new features created by the combination of generators with different technologies are studied. MASSIG intends to pave the way for investors of RES and DG (range up to several hundred kW) for finding alternative marketing approaches bringing them to the markets and helping them selling power and other electricity products.