Date: Tuesday 2nd July – Wednesday 3rd July 2013
Location: Düsseldorf

Challenges for gas-fired peaking plants to find a place in the Energy Transition

In the run-up of the September general election, debates on Germany’s future power market design are at centre stage. Profitability, operational dispatch of gas-fired plants and commercial viability of existing fossil plants and investment into new capacity hinges on capacity mechanisms, the outcome of price arbitrations over Russian gas supplies and electricity demand forecasts.