For the second time this year after January’s wholesale electricity prices rose to unexpected heights they did so again in late July/early August when hourly day ahead prices went up above 100 €/MWh many times in the most critical week, while German ...
Publications / Policy brief
Twin peaks?The high summer HUPX prices and the potential price effects of higher PV penetration in Hungary - policy briefPublished: 23 of November, 2017
How will LNG supply to Europe shape the European wholesale gas prices and flows by 2025?policy briefPublished: 16 of October, 2017
REKK has carried out a modelling based analysis to assess how different future scenarios of the global gas market supply and demand patterns can affect the wholesale gas price levels and infrastructure utilization in Europe by 2025. The analysis was part ...
Electricity Market integration 2.0 in Central and South-East Europepolicy briefPublished: 1 of October, 2017
The objective of this discussion paper is to briefly assess the most relevant legislative proposals pertaining to the European electricity market that emerged from the ‘Clean Energy for all Europeans’ package published at the end of 2016. Identifying the ...
REKK Comment on the new Hungarian renewable electricity support schemepolicy briefPublished: 14 of August, 2017
The European Commission has approved the new Hungarian renewable electricity support system (METÁR) in the middle of June, 2017. Accordingly, the Hungarian Ministry of National Development published the proposed new legislation for public ...
Analysing the 2017 January price hike in HUPXpolicy briefPublished: 20 of April, 2017
In 2017 January, extremly high prices were observed in the Hungarian power exchange. On 11 January, the baseload power price was traded on 300 €/MWh in some hours, while in the neighboring countries – except for Serbia and Croatia – prices were floating ...
Revised renewable statisticpolicy briefPublished: 30 of March, 2017
The deviation between the Hungarian statistical figures of forest biomass supply and consumption – the difference valued roughly at 70 bn HUF – is known for a long time. The recalculation of firewood volume used by households, now based on consumption ...
Regulatory obstacles of the use of subsurface water resourcespolicy briefPublished: 20 of December, 2016
The better use of thermal reserves raises the question of the regulation of scarce natural resources. First, the heat current of subterranean water bodies is limited, second, the amount of water is scarce. The water may be used to transfer heat (energy) ...
Possibilities of integrating intermittent renewable power generation in Hungarypolicy briefPublished: 5 of December, 2016
The policy brief assesses the possibilities and the regulatory costs of integrating several thousand MWs of intermittent renewable power generating capacities to the Hungarian grid.
Was it worth building the SK-HU gas natural interconnector?policy briefPublished: 25 of October, 2016
The 2011 Hungarian energy strategy considered the SK-HU gas interconnector as a priority infrastructure project. The interconnector was expected to serve three main objectives: improve Hungary’s gas market integration with Western Europe, improve ...
From where does it blow?Concerning the regulation of wind turbines - policy briefPublished: 20 of September, 2016
A strict regulation has been put into force regarding wind power commissioning in Hungary. The technical and safety regulation of electricity installations set the maximum capacity and size of turbines, as well as highest noise level emitted by wind ...
