Warum Strom so teuer ist

Who of you has ever thought about how electricity actually reaches our home through power lines, but did you know that it was previously sold in three different markets? When it comes down to it, it only takes 15 minutes. Grid operators sometimes have to carry out an emergency operation several times a day so that our entire electrical grid does not collapse and, above all, the way our electricity market is designed and our grid regulations put energies at a disadvantage. renewable. so something has to change, what exactly you will discover in this video before we really get into it, let's focus.

Here in this video we first look at the main electricity market. There are still many special facilities such as energy balance. market or things with sexy names like the minimum feed-in tariff We won't see them today due to lack of time, but we don't want to make another one-hour video because the topic of the electricity market is real. extremely complex, but let's start first: how does our electricity market work now? There are those who produce the electricity, those who deliver it to us and those who operate the networks so that the electricity reaches us and then there are the storage systems. that everyone has a great goal, so to speak, the holy grail that the frequency in the network remains at plus or minus 50 Hz because in order for electricity to come out of our socket we always have to inject approximately as much electricity as we currently have, both too much and too little can cause cascading effects that cause the network to collapse and even if this complete failure does not occur, too much or too little energy in the network ensures that we are above or below 50 hearts, which has a strange effect. side effects, for example that our clock radios and oven clocks work faster or slower and no longer show the correct time, you can probably imagine that with so many players it is not so easy because many electricity producers cannot easily produce more energy with They need a snap of the finger, meaning someone has to say in advance who will need how much electricity and when, and do it.

There are always people here and there who predict the future. There are so-called load profiles. support, which are a 15-minute breakdown of when a grid-connected consumer will consume and how much electricity. For large clients, this is based on continuous measurements and data from previous years is calculated for smaller clients, such as your home or the. shop around the corner, but no one bothers to measure it exactly. For you, there are standard load profiles that are also calculated with an accuracy of 15 minutes and there are differential balancing groups that compensate for incorrect planning in this standard profile. but all that is becoming too complicated.

Oh yeah, and for everything to do with heat from electricity, again there is a breakdown depending on the outside temperature. The results are definitely the same endless Excel lists shown here for fun. are, well, exciting for Remscheid, the people of Remscheid apparently go to bed at midnight, calm down with the help of these load profiles, our balance group manager then goes shopping and orders electricity, which she obtains on the European electricity market , so Of course, it is not her, but her employer. For example, an energy supplier like Stadtwerke is likely to do this well in advance and in the futures market, an electricity supplier can buy electricity from energy producers and other market participants with delivery times ranging from a few days. up to more than a year This is interesting because it provides security in planning.

Perhaps spontaneous markets are cheaper on the same day, but not in all cases the energy supplier can guarantee the customer such a stable price, provided, of course, Russia and France. don't turn the wheel France, why France, we'll get to that in a moment, the futures market, in a nutshell, but only one of the three markets when it comes to the usual supply of electricity because if you buy electricity with a year in advance Of course, you may miscalculate or want to buy electricity for tomorrow for other reasons. In this case, there is the next day's market.

Electricity for the next day is sold here. Here you can oversell what you bought or buy. If you don't have enough or, for example, you own a coal-fired power plant and notice that the electricity I sold a year ago was cheaper at my neighbor's house, I can buy a wind turbine rather than produce it myself at home. own power plant. Then I will be able to act again, but it may also be that the previous day's planning does not fit, which would be a problem, after all, we have our holy grail: the power grid should remain stable.

That is why electricity can be traded on the Intrade market up to 15 minutes in advance and no later than today, and Intrade now addresses the question of price and applies the so-called matched order principle, for example if I need additional energy. quantities of electricity and that's what it's all about. Whoever supplies them now is first the cheapest, these are renewable energies, then atoms and then coal and power plants that also sell additional heat when nothing works anymore, but at some point the pure and expensive gas energy will arrive. It will also be necessary to turn on plants that, at least, unlike many others, start up in a few minutes.

However, the power plant with the highest costs needed to ultimately meet demand sets the exchange price for all other electricity producers. It is the married order. The effect is called uniform pricing and it ensures that all power plants receive the same remuneration. In our example, this also means that really cheap renewable electricity is suddenly very expensive. In that sense, the law is simply the free market in action. Say, for example, my grandmother always gives me a huge basket of apples. The only thing I had to invest was not 30 minutes to pick them up. of it and maybe 20 euros for a basket, but there are too many and I can't eat them all at once, so I want to sell them at the market on Fridays, but of course it costs more for my neighbor at the stall to produce them. apples than I take 10 cents per apple or well, it was before inflation, let's say it takes 30 cents per apple, how much do I offer my apples for now?

I'm not stupid so of course also for 30 cents and that's exactly how the merit order works well but back to the topic, the load for the market can be completely covered but things may look different for the network because sometimes what was negotiated and what the power grid can actually do are so far away that a so-called red spot occurs, suppose it is noon in November, the wind blows happily, in the north there is endless electricity, but today There is no sun in Bavaria and there are still hardly any wind turbines here, so much more electricity is needed than there. is in the south of Germany and whoever thinks now that we will send excess wind energy from the sea is not possible, that does not work all the time, but the large transmission networks in Germany are not always sufficiently developed and therefore , It is overloaded more frequently But now there is no underloading in Bavaria and no overloading in the north, the grid operators have to carry out the so-called redesign.

They use temporary mandatory regulations to ensure that electricity is balanced before and after the bottleneck. In our example, the problem is solved locally, which means that in Bavaria they put the gas power plants at full load and at the same time disconnect the offshore wind turbines from the grid, which is very annoying, it is billions of euros. 1 per year that are simply wasted and also those involved also receive compensation payments for the damage caused in general, so it is quite an expensive affair Video Bad luck for both the climate and the pocketbook because we all pay the price of a new one Patch Through network fees and costs are increasing.

This is also because something like this is becoming more and more necessary. What used to happen maybe once a week now sometimes happens several times a day. But it's not like that. The reason for the increase in the price of electricity, at least not in recent months. One of those responsible, you know Russia, for the Marit order effect and the gas plants explains, among other things, why the price of electricity rises. when gas is expensive, at least when we need a lot of electricity but the sun does not shine, but why do we need so much electricity?

To answer this question, we have to look not to the east but to the west, to our French neighbors, bonjour. because both the electricity grid and the electricity market are European if we think about it. If we need more electricity than we have, we can buy it from one of our neighbors, but at the moment they are more likely to buy from us than from France. , the country that has nuclear energy in recent months, in some cases only has half of the electricity production from nuclear energy in its own electrical grid. There are three main reasons: Firstly, Mailas are on average around 37 years old and were generally only designed to last 40 years.

The second reason is the poor general condition. In recent months, more and more ovens have been used for safety reasons and have been disconnected from the grid for maintenance work, some of which has not been carried out. During the coronavirus pandemic and the third reason is climate change itself. Due to the dry summer, the rivers in France were also extremely low, so much so that some nuclear reactors had to reduce their production because they simply could not. In September, for this variety of reasons, 27 of the 56 French reactors were not in operation, which has been the case at least since December of last year.

You can imagine that the French have to buy electricity abroad, which is also increasing. Demand in Germany in turn drives up the price of electricity here in the country. But back to renewables, in the last few minutes it has already become clear several times that renewables often lose out in the current electricity market due to bottlenecks on the grid. Among other things, how can we solve the big problem? The magic word is flexibility: electricity generation is increasingly flexible thanks to renewable energy sources; So part of the solution is scaling up the right infrastructure, more storage, and more? grid capacity, you can see in detail how and why this helps in our video from three weeks ago, which you can find here and also linked at the bottom of the video description, but we also have to adapt our electricity market first to the greats.

Consumers have to become more flexible and then we have the small consumers. Research is looking at a wide range of ways we can do this and I present three as examples. One possible lever is the wide patch as we just described, which is a cost-based redest patch, but what is being discussed in science is a market-based redst patch. Here market participants could offer their compensation as a service. The advantage would be to create incentives to build one in the form of decentralized storage. , for example, or in the form of flexible processes in the industry, instead of having to apply coercive measures, network operators could negotiate compensation in a market designed specifically for this purpose and yes, I know that would be a bit stupid, but I could do what was necessary.

Make flexibility interesting as a business model. Some countries like the Netherlands are already doing this and the EU has recently made it a rule. Here in Germany the debate is still ongoing. a market-based redesign patch would also create incentives to specifically cause a network bottleneck. In order to then make money from it, this risk can perhaps be minimized by dividing Germany into four price zones, as in Scandinavia, but there is still no agreement on this in Germany. Another solution that is being discussed would be a different calculation of network rates, that is, rates that we all pay at home for the use of the electrical grid and its lines, so there are several problems with renewable energies, but one of they. is that it is calculated, among other things, based on the largest load that can be put on the grid at one time in a year.

So if I buy a large amount of electricity today and very little for the rest of the year, then that still increases my network tariff, which of course makes it very unattractive to buy electricity in large quantities when there is a lot of it, consumers should do exactly that. The market could become more flexible here if the relevant regulations changed. Flexibility, that's all. Very good, but what does it matter to us as small consumers? After all, we are billed using standard load profiles. No one even records what we actually use, and if not yet, that could change over time.advance of digitalization, because some people, including the E.U. , dreams that we all have digital electricity meters or smart meters, a communication element that, unlike our current electricity meter, works in two directions: you can not only see your own consumption but also send messages about it.

In addition, information about your consumption is also sent to the network Always during periods of 15 minutes, as is the case with normal load profiles. If this information were available, the flexibilities of us small consumers could be better integrated, advocates argue, perhaps then we would have to repatch less frequently. on data protection and cybersecurity And here you have to take it into account when choosing a manufacturer, but it could be worth it for anyone who generates their own electricity at home. A digital electricity meter definitely has advantages, you can do it. Use it to consume and generate electricity, for example electricity from your own solar energy.

By keeping the roof separate better, billing could fundamentally change because solar panel owners currently pay more for a kilowatt hour they get from the grid than for a kilowatt hour they feed into the grid from their solar panel, and model-based billing of flexible tariffs, for example for day and night energy or in the future depending on the weather and the price of electricity, can be solved technically, for example with a. suitable electricity supplier, I can charge my electric car automatically when it is very windy, when electricity is especially cheap and then I pay less per kilowatt hour, which in turn helps the grid.

Because consumers are more flexible and buy renewable energy. By the way, tippbar, which also supported us in the creation of this video, in Tipper you can obtain electricity from the electricity market in real time. It gives you the opportunity to use electricity when it is especially cheap. You can see the current prices directly in the Tipper app so you can easily plan when, for example, you want to run the washing machine, charge your electric car or with. Something that is sinfully expensive Christmas decorations bothers the neighbors and then there is no profit margin for the informants.

Added to this is the real price of electricity on the market and a fixed monthly rate of 3.99 euros. Therefore, if you regularly purchase electricity at favorable times, this can lead to notable savings. Furthermore, it will also help the stability of the grid and the environment because, as already mentioned, electricity is particularly cheap when much of it comes from renewable sources. you have a digital electricity meter at home. With the pals electricity tracker it offers you your own hardware with which you can see your consumption in real time in the application and, by the way, wood makes its money with gadgets like the neck and not by selling.

The electricity itself if you use your electricity flexibly. If you want to shop cheaply and sustainably, check out Zimmer through the first link in the video description. Oh yes, and with the code Watson you will receive a €50 voucher for the Tipper. Store after signing the contract and at the same time support us with our change videos. It usually only takes 5 minutes and if you are not satisfied you can simply cancel within two weeks. Many thanks again to Tipper for his support with this video. So no matter if a smart meter or electricity supplier is for you or not, overall the electricity market of the future should be much more flexible in this regard.

I'll turn off the lights now, it's quite expensive, the electricity is fine. as always and be curious about your Cedric, among other things about the grid bottlenecks the grid bottlenecks the wind turbines in the sea of ​​the wind turbines from which wind energy arises and at the same time energy wind