Task Force Local Redistribution of Injections and Offtakes (LRIO)

Goal of the Task Force

The usage of electricity will rise significantly during the coming decades, due to the addition of more renewable energy sources, the electrification of sectors such as transport and industry, or the addition of new categories of consumers, such as data centers, electrolysers or carbon capture. As anticipating the location of these additional usages is important to know where the grid needs to be reinforced, Elia wishes to involve the relevant stakeholders in the processes of distributing theses new usages.

National or regional development studies are indeed based on scenarios that describe future additional usages at aggregated level (national or regional), but do not consider where these future additional usages will be located within the territory. This repartition step is important to know where the network needs to be reinforced or developed.

For this purpose, Elia has established the Task Force Local Redistribution of Injections and Offtakes (LRIO), as a consultative body for the co-development of methodologies that will be used to distribute locally the future additional capacities foreseen for generation, storage and consumption technologies defined at national or regional level. 

Organisation

The Task Force will start with a kick-off meeting, that will introduce the concept of local repartition and how it’s used by Elia in grid and in connection studies and initiate the call for evidence. Three thematic workshops will be then organized.

A report describing the methodologies that have been presented in the different workshops will be published on Elia’s website and will be the object of the public consultation.

Participants are also welcome to provide relevant information through a call for evidence or to present it in the relevant workshop.

The administrative duties of the Task Force will be handled by:

Chairman:

• Maarten Konings

Secretary:

• Renaud Préat