German Electricity Markets Library

A selected collection of documents and web sites in English.

Reports

• Optimization of Power Market Designs, Connect Energy Economics, for the German Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi), July 2014.  English executive summary.
• Strengthening Markets, Securing Supply:  Conceptual Framework for Implementing a Strategic Reserve in Germany, Report on the Outcomes of the Expert Dialogue on the Strategic Reserve, May 2013.
• Necessity of Capacity Mechanisms, Ecofys, (Commissioned by the German Association of Energy and Water Industries, BDEW), September 2012.
• Design of a Decentralized Capacity Market, German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW), September 2013.
• The Merit-Order Effect: A Detailed Analysis of the Price Effect of Renewable Electricity Generation on Spot Market Prices in Germany, Fraunhofer Institute, 2007.
• ​The Electricity Market We Need: Ecological and Flexible, Oliver Krischer, Member of the German Parliament, August 2014.
  

   
Web sites

• Agora Energiewende.  Especially "12 Insights on Germany's Energiewende." 
• Energy Transition:  The German Energiewende. 
• Germany Energy Blog, by Matthias Lang.

Germany and Europe

• Market Design for Large Scale Integration of Intermittent Renewable Energy Sources, CIGRE, October 2013.
• European Union Wind and Solar Electricity Policies: Overview and Considerations, US Congressional Research Service, August 2013.