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DOI 10.1016/j.biombioe.2013.01.014
Titel (primär) Impact of the Renewable Energy Sources Act in Germany on electricity produced with solid biofuels - lessons learned by monitoring the market development
Autor Sauter, P.; Witt, J.; Billig, E.; Thrän, D.
Quelle Biomass & Bioenergy
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
Department BIOENERGIE
Band/Volume 53
Seite von 162
Seite bis 171
Sprache englisch
Keywords Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG); Feed-in tariffs; Combined heat and power plants (CHP); Solid biomass ; Database; Technology parameter
UFZ Querschnittsthemen RU6;
Abstract The increased use of renewable energy is the declared objective of the European and
German climate policies. According to the German government, renewable energies will
contribute to 35 percent of electricity production by 2020. In a bid to meet these ambitious
targets, the Germany government implemented the EEG 2000. This policy guaranteed
a fixed tariff for 20 years to all renewable energy plant operators providing electricity to
grid. Following this policy implementation, significant market growth could be verified for
nearly all renewable energy sectors. Approximately 20 percent of Germany’s electricity
today is met be renewables. In order to ensure an efficient growth and encourage technology
providers to optimize and develop new innovative technologies a constant market
monitoring and periodic amendments to the feed-in tariffs are required.
In order to monitor the impact of the EEG and the development of the solid biofuels
within the German energy supply system a comprehensive database with about 10 000
datasets has been accumulated over the last decade. This inventory database with various
types of information is continuously updated, integrated and validated for data quality. It
has emerged that this represents now the most complete and relevant database in Germany.
Through the analysis of this database it can be shown, that the enactment of the
EEG in 2000 has resulted in a tenfold increase in the number, as well as in the installed
capacity of biomass CHP plants. These biomass CHP plants now contribute approximately 9
percent of the total electricity generated from renewable energy sources. The database
analysis has also identified that there is a correlation between technology options, stakeholders
and biomass sources, as these have changed in line with the changes in framework
conditions over the last three EEG periods.
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Sauter, P., Witt, J., Billig, E., Thrän, D. (2013):
Impact of the Renewable Energy Sources Act in Germany on electricity produced with solid biofuels - lessons learned by monitoring the market development
Biomass Bioenerg. 53 , 162 - 171 10.1016/j.biombioe.2013.01.014