Gone with the wind? Electricity market prices and incentives to invest in thermal power plants under increasing wind energy supply
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Berlin: Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), 2009. (DIW Discussion papers; No. 852).
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T1 - Gone with the wind?
T2 - Electricity market prices and incentives to invest in thermal power plants under increasing wind energy supply
AU - Traber, Thure
AU - Kemfert, Claudia
PY - 2009/1
Y1 - 2009/1
N2 - The increased wind energy supplied to many electricity markets around the world has to be balanced by reliable back up units or other complementary measures when wind conditions are low. At the same time wind energy impacts both, the utilization of thermal power plants and the market prices. While the market prices tend to decrease, the impact on the utilization of different plant types is at the outset unclear. To analyze the incentives to invest in thermal power plants under increased wind energy supply, we develop a computational model which includes start-up restrictions and costs and apply it to the German case. We find that due to current wind supply the market prices are reduced by more than five percent, and the incentives to invest in natural gas fired units are largely decreased. An increased wind supply erodes their attractiveness further. Consequently, a gap between the need for and the incentive to provide exibility can be expected.
AB - The increased wind energy supplied to many electricity markets around the world has to be balanced by reliable back up units or other complementary measures when wind conditions are low. At the same time wind energy impacts both, the utilization of thermal power plants and the market prices. While the market prices tend to decrease, the impact on the utilization of different plant types is at the outset unclear. To analyze the incentives to invest in thermal power plants under increased wind energy supply, we develop a computational model which includes start-up restrictions and costs and apply it to the German case. We find that due to current wind supply the market prices are reduced by more than five percent, and the incentives to invest in natural gas fired units are largely decreased. An increased wind supply erodes their attractiveness further. Consequently, a gap between the need for and the incentive to provide exibility can be expected.
KW - Electricity market modeling
KW - start-up costs
KW - wind energy
KW - oligopoly
KW - Stromtarif
KW - Elektrizitätswirtschaft
KW - Oligopol
KW - Windenergie
KW - Wärmeenergie
KW - Gaswirtschaft
KW - Investition
KW - Ökonomischer Anreiz
KW - Deutschland
KW - Economics
M3 - Working papers
T3 - DIW Discussion papers
BT - Gone with the wind?
PB - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
CY - Berlin
ER -