Energy Market

Who is disrupting the utility frequency?

Published: 15. February 2019 Author: Christian
Read entire post On 10 January 2019, the utility frequency of Europe’s power grid dropped to 49.8 hertz. Many factors contributed to the near-blackout that evening, but the incident is not the only one in recent weeks that has shaken the grid.

Renewable Energy Island – Part 1

Published: 27. December 2018 Author: Christian
Read entire post Somewhere in the big blue ocean, there lies an island that can serve as a blueprint for the approach to tackle the challenges of climate change with a self-sufficient supply through renewable energies.

The dance of generation and demand

Published: 20. December 2017 Author: Helen
Read entire post Flexibility is the defining principle of tomorrow's electricity market: Helen Steiniger analyses the transition from inflexible concepts of the past to the dynamic electricity markets of the future.

First shift, then store

Published: 16. June 2017 Author: Jan
Read entire post In our future energy systems we will pretty often see times where, let’s say, a sudden storm front brings heaps of cheap and green and beautiful but, alas, in that particular time unneeded wind power into the system. And we will see times where the opposite happens: a sudden shortage of wind and solar power. What can we do about it?

How to balance supply and demand on new electricity markets

Published: 5. December 2016 Author: Jochen
Read entire post Electricity markets around the world are experiencing a fundamental change: the rapid rise of renewable power generation. In some places the power generation of renewables is occasionally exceeding the total demand in the electricity grid.

Digitalization: Where are the German digital utilities?

Published: 29. September 2016 Author: Hendrik
Read entire post In Germany, a lot has been written about two energy megatrends of our time, liberalisation of energy markets and decentralisation of the energy landscape. What we think has been neglected is a third megatrend: digitalisation.