Comments on: How many new power lines will Germany need? https://energytransition.org/2018/04/how-many-new-power-lines-will-germany-need/ The Global Energiewende Mon, 14 May 2018 16:25:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 By: S. Herb https://energytransition.org/2018/04/how-many-new-power-lines-will-germany-need/#comment-6560 Thu, 05 Apr 2018 16:25:09 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=17018#comment-6560 These maps remind me of the Holy Roman Empire – I hope that that does not become a model for the energy future of Germany. Seriously, the future will have to be a mix of distributed and concentrated generation resources, and some professional modelling must be devoted to this. The ISE Fraunhofer model assumed, if I recall correctly, a ‘copper plate’ model for Germany, with current-limited interconnections to the neighboring states. It would be possible to model Germany as a group of copper plates with interconnectors and to see how the costs and local energy structure change.

I assume that the fundamental component of the resilience toolkit is a diesel generator.

]]> By: heinbloed https://energytransition.org/2018/04/how-many-new-power-lines-will-germany-need/#comment-6553 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 21:32:12 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=17018#comment-6553 There were 400MW of PV added in Germany in the first two month – this looks like a new boom:

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2018/04/03/germany-adds-another-200-mw-of-solar-in-february/

The separation of the Austrian and German power market allows Austria thanks to the now higher power prices to become electricity independent. which blows apart all past grid extension dreams, Austria could supply Bavaria and BW in a couple of years with REs:

https://www.pv-magazine.de/2018/04/03/oesterreich-plant-100-000-daecher-programm-fuer-photovoltaik-und-heimspeicher/

Italy just reduced the electricity prices by a massive 8% taking another client from the international power market, certainly from the Nort-to-South market:

https://www.platts.com/latest-news/electric-power/barcelona/italys-power-tariffs-drop-8-in-q2-gas-tariffs-26928052

The new power lines are meant to help the atomic incumbents like Belgium and France, the EU insists on more transport capacities from Denmark to Germany. And this power is better paid in Belgium and France, Nl and UK.

https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/DE/2018/20180329_anord.html

Spain is doing it’s best from the other side:

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2018/04/03/spain-government-expects-solar-to-dominate-by-2030-with-up-to-77-gw/

Vienna’s community utility plans 600MW PV for 2030:

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2018/03/23/austrian-utility-wien-energie-begins-solar-offensive/

So there is little use for the Nort-South interconnectors as far as I see, except for 8% or 9% guaranteed profit/ROI per year to the grid owner.

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