The Commission has proposed to revise elements of the Clean
Energy Package to support development of offshore wind, a sector in
which Ireland aspires to reach 7GW of new generation capacity by
2030.
A Proposal for a Regulation would amend the
Internal Market in Electricity Regulation ((EU/2019/943) and Directive ((EU) 2019/944).
Recitals state that to reduce investment risk for offshore
project developers and ensure projects have full access to
surrounding markets, TSOs should guarantee access of the offshore
project to the capacity of any hybrid interconnectors for all
market time units.
Under the IME Regulation, when allocating congestion income,
priority currently is given to guaranteeing availability of the
allocated capacity and to maintaining or increasing cross-zonal
capacity.
