Regulatory incentives for digitalisation and flexibility utilization through a yardstick competition

Konferenz: ETG-Kongress 2021 - ETG-Fachtagung
18.03.2021 - 19.03.2021 in Online

Tagungsband: ETG-Fb. 163: ETG-Kongress 2021

Seiten: 6Sprache: EnglischTyp: PDF

Autoren:
Bogensperger, Alexander; Koeppl, Simon (Forschungsstelle für Energiewirtschaft e. V. (FfE), Munich, Germany)

Inhalt:
The regulatory regime is a key-factor for a cost-effective, ecological and secure energy supply. The paper shows properties of the German revenue-cap-regulation (status quo) and compares it with a yardstick competition. Both are described and compared through a novel optimization approach. By utilizing alternative measures to cost-intensive grid expansion, identified in the project “C/sells”, these regimes are compared. An analysis of efficiency-values of German grid system operators indicates a favorable basis for a yardstick regulation. The paper concludes by introducing a method to analyze the suitability of German grid system operators towards a yardstick regulation and applies it to an incomplete dataset to give first implications towards the suitability of a yardstick competition in Germany.