“When wind turbines are simply switched off”
Hamburger Abendblatt
The lack of flexibility in conventional power plants is a “key problem of the Energiewende”, writes Jakob Schlandt in Hamburger Abendblatt. While conventional plants continue to run at times of grid congestion, “whole wind parks are being switched off exactly when they could produce at full speed”, he writes. Some fossil-fuel plants needed to produce a minimum of power for technical or other reasons, but details on when and how far operators reduce production were treated as business secrets.
Read the article in German here.
Read about re-dispatch costs in the German power grid and their effects on power prices in these CLEW factsheets.
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