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by ErikCorry 240 days ago
It's a huge issue, see the depressing web page on Südlink. Massively delayed, much more expensive, and less efficient because it has to be underground. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suedlink

Germany, like the UK, has dynamic national electricity pricing, which makes no sense when the interconnections are not powerful enough to actually make it a single electricity market.
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p_l 240 days ago
Germany is very weird in a certain way of total belief in power of free market.

So you see, the market was supposed to correct that.

But profit laid with cheap gas turbines to backstop wind and buying from france ;)

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ErikCorry 240 days ago
It's not a real free market, though, if you ignore transmission. Since transmission is a scarce resource it needs to be part of the market to send the signal to build more of it (or more battery storage, or better located production). The national auctions obscure the actual resource shortage and therefore the market can't work.
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p_l 240 days ago
sshhhh, you're breaking the perfect invisible hand of market Germany wants to dogmatically push in EU grid

The mandatory EDI platform to interact on German market is also a bit annoying, though it's in details theory is theoretically /s solid

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sandos 240 days ago
Dynamic pricing is often touted as the solution, since it will encourage both transmission and building generation where its needed the most.
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