transition. In this paper, we investigate the German pilot auction scheme for solar photovoltaics introduced in the Renewable … Energies Act 2014 (EEG 2104) that serves as a pilot for the auction-based promotion of the three major large-scale renewable … by an adjusted auction strategy. The first-price auction can generate additional profits by placing a second, higher bid …

that a discriminatory auction design favoring low-wind-yield locations leads to a tradeoff between production costs and … auction levels intra-technology discrimination through the reference yield model leads to a reduction of consumer costs of …