​Germany is curtailing twice as much renewable energy as a decade ago - at a system cost of almost €3bn per year.
The reason: An outdated redispatch framework that doesn’t utilise the flexible storage technology that is best suited to solve the problem.
The missed opportunity: A system that utilises batteries properly could reduce system costs by around two thirds, completely without subsidies.
Unless Germany rethinks redispatch, it will keep wasting clean power and costing the consumer billions - even though private capital is ready to fix it.
All it takes is getting the market design right.
Subscribers to Modo Energy’s German Research will discover:
- How much batteries could reduce system costs by
- What policy incentives batteries would need to help reduce curtailment
- What Germany is (and isn’t) doing to get batteries involved
For any further information on this topic, reach out to the author - till@modoenergy.com
New to redispatch? Read our Redispatch Explainer to find out how Germany’s redispatch system works, how storage is compensated - and why batteries are still being left out.
