German wind power development is a technological success story but has involved very high subsidies. Germany was a latecomer in wind power but specific political conditions in the late 1980s and early 1990s allowed the implementation of the feed in tariff regime which has characterised Germany...

Land-use conflicts arise if land is scarce, land-use types are mutually exclusive, and vary in their effects with regard to more than one incongruent policy objective. If these effects depend on the spatial location of the land-use measures the conflict can be mediated through an appropriate...

This article analyses the flexibility of the German power market with respect to the integration of an increasing share of electricity from renewable energy sources. Flexibility limiting system components, which cause negative prices are explained and illustrated for the German market. Then, the...

High levels of wind power penetration will tend to affect prices in a deregulated electricity market. Much of the analysis in the literature has focused on the effect that wind power has on average electricity prices, this paper attempts to test the effect that wind power production has on the...

It is well established within both the economics and power system engineering literature that hydro power can act as a complement to large amounts of intermittent energy. In particular hydro power can act as a battery where large amounts of wind power are installed. In this paper I use simple...

The increased wind energy supplied to many electricity markets around the world has to be balanced by reliable back up units or other complementary measures when wind conditions are low. At the same time wind energy impacts both, the utilization of thermal power plants and the market prices....

Das Raumordnungsverfahren für die Netzanbindung des Ostseewindparks "Beta Baltic" wurde im Jahr 2011 durchgeführt. Im Ergebnis des Verfahrens wurde eine Vorzugstrasse für die Kabelverbindung vom geplanten Windpark vor der Insel Fehmarn zum Umspannwerk Bentwisch bei Rostock festgelegt. Der...

Der Windenergieausbau an Land wird durch Proteste vor Ortoft verzögert oder gar verhindert. Finanzielle Teilhabe wird in diesem Kontext als Maßnahme diskutiert, um lokale Akzeptanz zu fördern, indem sie das empfundene Gerechtigkeitserlebnis positiv beeinflusst. Aufbauend auf dem Konzept der...

Durch die Beschlüsse zur Energiewende im Jahr 2011 haben sich die energiepolitischen Rahmenbedingungen in Deutschland seit der Verabschiedung der letzten Leitbilder und Handlungsstrategien für die Raumentwicklung deutlich geändert. Der vorliegende Beitrag greift die veränderten...