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Madeira. 2.1.1. Key stakeholders Limassol has identified the following key stakeholders for their site: • CMF (Municipality of Funchal) • Regional Education Authority • Police • PT operators Drawing from the stakeholders listed in D8.1, Stakeholder Maps and Guidelines, the table below shows how stakeholders from both measures score in the two axes (Power and Interest), enlightening about their expected role during measure preparation and implementation. The following graphs presents the Level of Stakeholder involvement for Madeira measures:
Madeira overview of the proposed solutions Madeira Island is located in the North Atlantic Ocean, close to Morocco and Canary Islands (Figure 15). It is the main island of the Madeira archipelago - which includes Porto Santo, Desertas, and Selvagens Islands - and is one of the two Portuguese autonomous regions.
Madeira. Overview of the island’s system Madeira is the largest of the three SMILE islands in terms of geography, population and energy system. In 2016, it counted over 260 000 inhabitants and an installed generation capacity of 324 MW, the majority of which comes from fossil fuels, as shown in figure 6 below. Crucially, it is an energy island, not interconnected to the rest of the European internal energy market. This situation implies technical and economic challenges, as well as a specific legal regime. Indeed, this isolated situation deprives the Madeiran grid from the resilience of larger, interconnected networks. Consequently, it is challenging to increase the share of RESs, especially variable ones such as wind and solar PV, while maintaining stable voltage and frequency levels currently provided by the spinning reserves of thermal turbines [184]. It is this technical issue that has led the regional government to limit grid connections of full- injection micro-producers (rooftop solar owners) since 2014 and to only authorise installations entirely for self-consumption without any injection to the grid, thus slowing down the distributed PV’s uptake [185]. Despite this handicap, Madeira has aimed to get 50% of the electricity in its grid from RESs by 2020, compared to 30% in 2016 [186]. In the decade of 2020, it has aimed to shut down part of its thermal power plants, to significantly increase wind, PV and hydro power (including pumped hydro storage), to develop geothermal energy and to install a large battery (18 MW/15,6 MWh)[187]. The SMILE pilots aim to enable such transition by testing technologies authorising households and small businesses, EV owners and the grid operator to perform energy arbitrage and peak-shaving, and to provide frequency support and voltage regulation. Figure 6 – Overview of Madeira’s electricity system [188] EU law concepts As mentioned in the previous paragraph, and as explained in deliverable D7.1 [189], Madeira benefits from a specific legal regime. Indeed, following a 2006 Commission decision, the outermost region of Portugal is considered a micro isolated system and is indefinitely exempt from the main liberalised market rules: free choice of supplier, third-party access, market-based supply prices, unbundling rules, and so on. It is also exempt from the application of the network codes detailed in sections 3.2 and 3.3, although these can provide an interesting source of inspiration and benchmarks for Madeira’s own set of netwo...
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Madeira. A key feature differentiates the scenario and the challenges of Madeira from those of the other two SMILE demonstration sites as the Portuguese island is located over 1.000 km away from the European continent, implying no electricity network connection with it. In this sense, the electricity grid of the island must operate autonomously to accommodate local energy demand and generation, while a local organization, the publicly owned utility company Empresa de Electricidade da Madeira (EEM) is simultaneously operating as the island DSO, TSO and energy supplier40. In this respect, the autonomous region of Madeira, seeing its isolated location, benefits from derogations with respect to the liberalized market rules41. Madeira, just as other islands whose energy grid is completely isolated, is dependent upon fossil-fuel imports. As reported in D4.1, the island average energy mix in a one-year period comprised between 2016 and 2017 was reliant, for over 54% on a diesel-powered thermal plant while renewables accounted for just over 30% of total consumption. The latter percentage was expected to reach 50% between 2022 and 2023, implying a substantial growth of the share in just a six-years’ time. This objective was expected to be reached through addition in pump hydro storage systems capacity, wind power and solar power generation capacity, and refurbishment of hydro power stations42 (to increase the network flexibility). Moreover, by increasing the number of storage stations, the renewables share might reach 70% in the coming years43. In 2021, in the period January-August, electricity generation in the Madeira region relied still heavily on fossil fuels, almost 39% of the total generation and just over 21% was coming respectively from diesel and natural gas-powered plants. Almost 39% of generation was associated to renewables44 (about ten percentage points away from the objective).
