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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Assumed for renewable energy sources in particular.Simultaneous generation by a higher number of plants reduces power prices in these hours (cannibalisation effect). For the “Central” scenario, this leads to a slow decline in capture prices until 2040. From 2040, there will be a moderate increase again due to the increasing flexible demand for electricity.In contrast, the “GoHydrogen” scenario shows a sharper decline between 2035 and 2040, before the capture prices level stabilise with slight fluctuations from 2040 onwards. The “GoHydrogen” scenario results in lower prices overall, including capture prices, because capacities grow to a larger extent than in the “Central” scenario due to the increased expansion of renewable power plants.Figure 13: Average capture prices for wind in selected European countries (Source: Energy Brainpool, 2024)Positive revenues are possible primarily when controllable fossil fuel power plants set the price, even if large capacities of renewables are actively participating in the market at this time. The fluctuation range of the markets gives an indication of how different the country-specific average revenue opportunities for wind turbines in Europe are. This may be due to geographical and economic conditions as well as the progress of the expansion of renewable energies.What revenues can photovoltaic systems (solar) generate?Both sales values and capture prices show a steeper downward trend for photovoltaic systems in the “Central” and “GoHydrogen” scenarios than for wind power plants (see Figure 14). This can be explained by the fact that the expansion of photovoltaic capacity in many countries has progressed significantly further than the
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