The impact of weather and of batteries on the investment risk for backup gas power plants in a largely renewable energy system

Sabine Pelka, Laurens J. De Vries, Marc Deissenroth

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Abstract

With an increasing wind and photovoltaic share, the German generation mix becomes more weather-dependent. Backup technologies can help to bridge scarcity moments. These rare moments with high prices are the main events for their cost recovery. However, the uncertain revenue flow combined with long payback periods leads to high investment risks and possibly insufficient investment.A high level of needed backup capacity to cover the load does not necessarily go along with a high level of requested backup energy. Both indicators depend on the renewable output and the availability of alternative flexibility sources. We calculate them for two contrasting weather years and three levels of battery capacity by the agent-based-model AMIRIS. As a result, the demonstrated volatile backup energy request in combination with the same level of requested backup capacity for every scenario supports the idea of an alternative remuneration for the provision of capacity next to the energy-only-market.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication16th International Conference on the European Energy Market, EEM 2019
PublisherIEEE
Number of pages6
Volume2019-September
ISBN (Electronic)9781728112572
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Event16th International Conference on the European Energy Market, EEM 2019 - Ljubljana, Slovenia
Duration: 18 Sept 201920 Sept 2019

Conference

Conference16th International Conference on the European Energy Market, EEM 2019
Country/TerritorySlovenia
CityLjubljana
Period18/09/1920/09/19

Keywords

  • backup capacity
  • batteries
  • flexibility
  • Security of supply
  • weather

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