Category: Electricity

During peak renewable power generation hours, such as mid-day in the summer in Israel, it is necessary to shut down a large number of conventional power stations. Whilst as the evening grows nearer, it is necessary to start operating a large number of units to generate the volume of electricity needed for the market. This phenomenon is known as the Duck Curve

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This is more expensive , and generates 10% more electricity than polycrystalline silicon. With monocrystalline silicon, a 330 watt panel can generate 350 watts.

PV technology which is made up of panels split into two rectangles that reduce the distance the electricity travels through the cell before being collected and increases the capacity

A component that regulates high-voltage transmission and protects the grid from extreme current changes

A market which is lacking sufficient revenues from the sale of energy and ancillary services for financing the construction of a new generating unit. In this situation, reserves will decrease and the probability of non-supply will increase (the availability price in the market should go up in this case).

-The entry of renewable energies and decommissioning of polluting units contributes to the missing money phenomenon.

-The funding of capacity payments which should prevent a missing money scenario is imposed on the consumers/suppliers.

– The entry of renewable energies at a zero marginal cost reduces the number of hours of high marginal costs in the grid (reduction of peaks) and lowers the profitability in energy markets, as well as the number of hours during which the probability of non-supply is high.

-Missing money does not reflect the lack of commercial success of any power station but the lack of economic feasibility for adding new capacity to the grid.