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Stefan Storr

Prof. Dr. Institute for Austrian and European Public Law Vienna University of Economics and Business

CONTENTS: I. THE NEED FOR EXPANSION AND INTERCONNECTION OF ELECTRICITY GRIDS. 1. New production sites. 2. Constant current frequency. 3. High peaks. 4. Higher demand for electricity. 5. Security of supply. 6. Fostering electricity trading in Europe. 7. The need for EU-wide smart grids. II. THE EU’S GOALS AND COMPETENCES REGARDING THE INTERCONNECTION AND INTEROPERABILITY OF NETWORKS. III. PLANNING TO EXPAND ELECTRICITY GRIDS. 1. Priorities concerning trans-European network infrastructure. 2. The network development plan. 3. German projects to expense the grid. IV. JOINT ELECTRICITY BIDDING ZONES. 1. The former Austrian-German-Luxembourgian joint-bidding zone. 2. The new regulation for bidding zones. a) Main Principles. b) Procedural Aspects. aa) The “starting point”. bb) The choice of the Member State. cc) The Commission’s measure as last resort. V. SUMMARY.

ABSTRACT: This article presents the most important reasons contributing to the need for existing energy networks to be better interconnected and expanded in order to make the energy transition to a sustainable energy supply successful. The European Union has strong competences to participate in the necessary procedures for the energy transition through Art 194 TFEU and Art 170 as well as Art 171 TFEU. For example, this can be done by defining projects of common interest and establishing procedural aspects for the expansion of networks by means of a network development plan. One key area within this topic is the importance of a electricity bidding zone, which will be examined in this text by focusing on the separation of the joint Austrian-German-Luxembourgian bidding zone. Of note here is the fact that the regulation governing the internalmarket for electricity [regulation (EU) 943/2019] already details a procedure for future amendments of electricity bidding zones.

KEY WORDS: energy transition; interconnection of networks; expansion of networks; trans-European network infrastructure; network development plan; action plan; bidding zone.