Fossil Power Generation - Partner - Collaborator or Victim of the Energy Turn-around

摘要

The electricity market in Germany is determined by the energy turn-around (“Energiewende”), which was initiated by the first renewable energy law (EEG) in 1991. After the revision of the EEG law in 2014 the development of renewable power generation will continue. Even more important, in certain regions of Germany the cost of electricity for customers for electricity from renewables is lower than for electricity from the grid. But the actual situation is not only driven by the EEG. The German decision to stop nuclear power generation together with low CO2 prices and the different development of fuel prices has an influence as well.