Heatwave cost electricity consumers millions – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

      

 
 
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
         

 
 
 
 
 
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The current heat wave is the German electricity consumers burdened with double-digit million cost. The reasons for this:. A very high production of solar power from photovoltaic plants in the north, many green electricity exports to South-East Europe and enormous problems in Poland where the electricity is scarce

                         
         
         
                                                             
                                 

Because all together “clogged” the lines, had to partially reduce the electricity production drastically conventional power plants in East Germany. Its operators are compensated, what consumers have to pay over the network charges with the electricity bill.

                         
         
         
                                                             

“We are giving since the heat wave every day roughly 2.5 million euros on cross-border interventions with our neighbors to stabilize the net,” said the executive director for the system operation of large network operator 50Hertz, Dirk Biermann. “About the thumb has not cost us the heatwave already 25 million euros.” 50Hertz supplies around 18 million households in the north and east of Germany.

                         
         
         
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

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On Friday 50Hertz grabbed temporarily with a volume of 5745 megawatts into the grid – which equates to about the performance four nuclear power plants. For the full year Biermann expected in the nationwide electricity grid costs for emergency measures to prevent blackouts, of up to EUR 500 million, as the planned North-South electricity highways missing: “That must have been a very, very expensive year for network operations.”

                         
         
         
                                                             

50Hertz praises that the coalition tips have agreed, after a long battle with Bayern on the construction of large DC lines to the south. “But we will have to do without it for a few years,” said Biermann. All the more important are current network expansion projects such as the Thuringian electricity bridge or the Uckermark line to bring wind and solar power in the South.

                                 

 
  

 
 
 
                       

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A large network operator expects a half a billion euros cost of electricity consumers – because the sun shines so much. And above all, because the power lines from north to south are still missing.

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