Comments on: The state of auctions in Germany https://energytransition.org/2017/10/the-state-of-auctions-in-germany/ The Global Energiewende Fri, 09 Mar 2018 14:34:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 By: Auctions didn’t make wind power cheaper, study finds https://energytransition.org/2017/10/the-state-of-auctions-in-germany/#comment-6440 Fri, 09 Mar 2018 14:34:08 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=15821#comment-6440 […] October, I wrote about how auction results seem to make wind and solar power much cheaper. Germany used to offer payments called feed-in […]

]]> By: Auctions didn’t make wind power cheaper, study finds : RenewEconomy https://energytransition.org/2017/10/the-state-of-auctions-in-germany/#comment-6438 Fri, 09 Mar 2018 03:00:49 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=15821#comment-6438 […] October, I wrote about how auction results seem to make wind and solar power much cheaper. Germany used to offer payments called feed-in […]

]]> By: Auctions didn’t make wind power cheaper, study finds - FueladdictsFueladdicts https://energytransition.org/2017/10/the-state-of-auctions-in-germany/#comment-6431 Wed, 07 Mar 2018 16:41:42 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=15821#comment-6431 […] October, I wrote about how auction results seem to make wind and solar power much cheaper. Germany used to offer payments called feed-in […]

]]> By: Bas Gresnigt https://energytransition.org/2017/10/the-state-of-auctions-in-germany/#comment-6103 Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:42:56 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=15821#comment-6103 “Why did Germany replace FITs with auctions if not to bring down costs?”
Answer: Mainly pressure from the EU.

]]> By: Redux https://energytransition.org/2017/10/the-state-of-auctions-in-germany/#comment-6080 Tue, 14 Nov 2017 19:37:21 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=15821#comment-6080 Hi Craig, sharing this report from the fossil fuel industry now asking for a bail out in the form of a 300 billions $ subsidies to hydrogen…

http://hydrogencouncil.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Hydrogen-scaling-up-Hydrogen-Council.pdf

I think you will appreciate this quote after you have seen who signed it :

“The Leeds project is expected to be financed through an extra rate on gas bills which will be shared by all gas customers. An alternative or complementary arrangement to fund the transition is a subsidization of hydrogen injections into the natural gas grid in the form of digressive feed-in tariffs or contracts for difference, in which the public hand offsets the excess costs in the initial face. Around the world, digressive feed-in tariffs have been used to support investments in renewable power generation by distributing costs across a wide customer base. In the case of solar power, they enabled rapid industrial scale-up, due to which solar is now close to achieving cost parity with conventional power generation. Similar arrangements could go a long way in promoting clean hydrogen production and use”

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