1. All in this together: How wind needs regional cooperation
Wednesday 28th September
Hamburg
Jan Hensmans
FPS Economie-DG Energy Belgium

2. In three words
As it stands, climate and energy policy is ultimately a national responsibility, entrenched in a regional reality, and in need of a pathway to reach its European destination. Successful regional cooperation can be the trailblazer.

3. Regional Energy Cooperation: Why?
EU climate and energy targets (2020; 2030)
- Incoherence between national policies & EU policy
Regional reality triggers RegCoop:
Interconnection means interdependence
Efficient coordination with familiar neighbours
Pioneering made possible
Risks and challenges:
Fragmentation
Overlap

4. Tools for Regional Cooperation
7 factors for succes:
Political guidance
Step-by-step approach
Communication
Continuity
Stakeholder participation
European orientation
Membership

5. The Benelux a living lab of regional cooperation
1944 : Benelux Customs Union Treaty
1958 : Benelux Economic Union Treaty
1985: Schengen
Agreement
2008 :
Benelux Union Treaty
Pioneer in EU
Cross border cooperation

6. BEN!EX
GASPLATFORM

7. Framework for regional cooperation in Central Western Europe (BENELUX-DE-FR-AT-CH)
Cooperation of ministries, regulators and TSO’s
Working towards improved electricity market integration and security of supply

8. Penta cooperation pays off
2005: Pentalateral Energy Forum
2010: Penta Market coupling
2013: Penta Political Declaration
2014 :
NWE market coupling
Flow Based
Nscogi Grid
SoS

9. North Seas Countries’ Offshore Grid Initiative
“NSCOGI provides a framework for regional cooperation to find common solutions to questions related to grid infrastructure developments in the North and Irish Seas”

10. HLG & Coordinators Committee Support Groups:
Political declaration on energy cooperation between the North Seas Countries (6th June 2016)
HLG & Coordinators Committee
Support Groups:
Maritime spatial planning
Development & regulation of offshore grids and other offshore infrastructure
Support framework and finance for offshore wind projects
Standards, technical rules and regulations in the offshore wind sector
Secretariat
Co-work Governments/European Commission