Europe is still mid-transition: more renewables, more system complexity and more market volatility. Irene Guerra Gil highlights the EU-wide reforms rolling out across member states, including the Renewable Energy Directive targets and electricity market reform tools like long-term contracts. Expect continued negative prices during high renewables, plus spikes when production is low.
MiSpeL is Germany’s market integration process for storage and charging points, tied to the newer §19 EEG logic. In plain terms, it means that batteries paired with PV are no longer locked into “self-consumption only.” The direction is clear: enable more flexible operation like charging from the grid at low prices and using storage more dynamically, with implementation steps set by the regulator.
§14a is already real for new controllable devices, and DSOs can temporarily reduce demand to avoid congestion. The next step, §14c, aims at market-based flexibility products, meaning flexibility becomes something you can sell, not just something that gets constrained. Irene Guerra Gil’s main point: §14c is not mainstream yet because the practical framework still needs to be defined.
Energy sharing is moving from behind-the-meter setups toward models that work through the grid, but Irene is honest about the complexity and slow adoption risk. Meanwhile, the Netherlands ending net metering on January 1, 2027 is expected to accelerate battery attachment rates fast. V2G is still largely in pilot phases, but MiSpeL-style rules and virtual power plant models are what make scaling possible.
“Negative prices will still happen, and price spikes will still happen when renewable production is low.”
“The whole point of MiSpeL is to finally use batteries as flexibility, not just as passive storage.”
“§14a is the first step – congestion management. §14c is the next step, where flexibility actually becomes something you can sell, but that framework still needs time before it works at scale.”
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