8th Capacity Mechanism and Flexibility Forum

Key facts

Date: 16 — 17 October, 2025

Place: Prague

Conference Overview

The 8th Capacity Mechanisms Forum, will take place in Prague, Czech Republic, from October 16th to 17th, 2025.

Attending the Forum offers valuable insights into how energy markets ensure reliability and security of supply. Participants gain a deeper understanding of different capacity market designs, regulatory developments, and investment incentives. It’s an opportunity to hear from policy makers, system operators, and industry leaders, exchange best practices, and explore how capacity mechanisms are evolving to support the energy transition. The forum also fosters networking with peers across the sector, enabling strategic collaborations and informed decision-making.

The forum will include discussions on updates on capacity mechanisms, the need for mechanisms to support flexibility or capacity, a look at some markets with high penetration of renewables and how their capacity needs are changing, new markets considering and adapting capacity mechanisms, the role of mechanisms in new market designs, the influence of capacity mechanisms on energy markets, recent debate on the German market design, the evolution of capacity markets, capacity mechanisms in renewable-dominated systems, and forward-looking considerations towards 2030. It features insights from experts across the energy sector.

Key topics

Understand the latest European regulationson capacity payments and their practical implications.
Explore efforts to simplify capacity market rules
Learn about progress toward harmonizing Capacity Remuneration Mechanisms (CRMs)across EU member states
Get insights into the development of the European Resource Adequacy Assessment (ERAA)and the new flexibility methodology
Examine the need for mechanisms that support both capacity and flexibility, especially as energy systems decarbonize
Discuss how to align security of supply with climate goals, including dealing with fossil fuel subsidies
Learn about cross-border participationin capacity mechanisms and its growing importance
Understand outcomes from recent market reform discussionsand future strategies to integrate adequacy and flexibility into market structures
Gain updates on capacity market developments in key EU countriessuch as Germany, France, Belgium, Greece, and Italy
Learn how different regions are considering introducing, adjusting, or complementing capacity mechanisms
Understand current UK discussions on reforming the capacity marketto better align with decarbonization efforts
Get specific insights into the MACSE scheme in Italyand how regional approaches are adapting to evolving policy goals