KYOS’ Presentation E-Mart 2017: How can conventional generation survive?

Emart Energy 2017

Last week KYOS was present at the EMART 2017 Conference in Amsterdam. The conference attracted over 500 participants and featured some interesting debates about the challenges of the energy sector. Cyriel de Jong from KYOS held a presentation in the session on Power Price Drivers: “How can conventional generation survive in Europe?”

He showed how fundamental models help to forecast future power prices and power plant profitability. He used the KYOS’ KyPF model first to showcase how reduced French nuclear plant availability affects Western-European power prices. This is a hot topic, because ongoing uncertainty about inspections at several French nuclear plants has caused a rally in French power prices. And not only in France, but across Europe.

Nuclear situation France affects prices in Western Europe

Cyriel shared his view that the price response of Germany is probably too large, because of limited export capacities of Germany to France. In another example, Cyriel analyzed different CO2 price scenarios. He showed that CO2 price levels of 20 or 30 Euro per ton above current levels will lead to a strong shift away from old coal and lignite stations. Both efficient coal plants and gas plants will benefit, and carbon emission levels in Germany will drop sharply.

For a summary of the presentation, click here. If you would like to see the full presentation, please send an e-mail to: info@kyos.com.

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