CleanTechnica » merit order effect http://cleantechnica.com Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:48:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 Top 50 Solar Energy Stories Of The Year (Part Five: #41-50) http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/03/top-50-solar-energy-stories-of-the-year-part-five-41-50/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/03/top-50-solar-energy-stories-of-the-year-part-five-41-50/#comments Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:00:55 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=52382 (If you’ve read the intro 4 times already, just skip to the final 10 articles.) We’re trying to get more solar energy stories going over on Planetsave. To catch readers up, I’m doing a short series on the top 50 solar energy stories of 2013 so far. Learning from the Top 33 EV Stories article I recently published,

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/03/top-50-solar-energy-stories-of-the-year-part-five-41-50/feed/ 0 Cheap Wind Power Disrupting Brazilian Energy Market http://cleantechnica.com/2013/04/18/cheap-wind-power-disrupting-brazilian-energy-market/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/04/18/cheap-wind-power-disrupting-brazilian-energy-market/#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:30:30 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=50816 As the cost of wind power drops, and the wind industry grows, wind farms have a greater impact on electricity markets. And one of those big impacts is reducing the price of electricity. As we’ve been writing for years, due to the merit order effect, wind power lowers the price of wholesale electricity. At the

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/04/18/cheap-wind-power-disrupting-brazilian-energy-market/feed/ 9 Clean Power News Roundup (Buffet–Suntech Rumors, Solar Cuts Electric Bills…) http://cleantechnica.com/2013/04/16/clean-power-news-roundup-buffet-suntech-rumors-solar-cuts-electric-bills/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/04/16/clean-power-news-roundup-buffet-suntech-rumors-solar-cuts-electric-bills/#comments Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:19:45 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=50763 Here’s some more top clean power news from around the interwebs: Solar Warren Buffet To Buy Suntech? Natcore Takes Another Step Solar Reduces Everyone’s Electric Bill Wind Vestas Appoints New Chief Financial Officer Gamesa Begins To Erect 5 MW Wind Turbine Solar + Wind German Statistics For Renewables EEG Sees Record €970 Million Surplus In

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/04/16/clean-power-news-roundup-buffet-suntech-rumors-solar-cuts-electric-bills/feed/ 1 Renewable Energy Big Pic: Part 2 (Including 19 Charts & Graphs) http://cleantechnica.com/2012/12/12/renewable-energy-big-pic-part-2-19-charts-graphs/ http://cleantechnica.com/2012/12/12/renewable-energy-big-pic-part-2-19-charts-graphs/#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2012 03:26:47 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=46030 Continuing on from yesterday’s “Renewable Energy Big Pic” post, here’s Renewable Energy Big Pic: Part 2. As noted yesterday, this two-post series is basically a presentation I gave to a class of renewable energy graduate students this week. Enjoy this second part, and chime in below if anything interesting or useful comes to mind. German

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/12/12/renewable-energy-big-pic-part-2-19-charts-graphs/feed/ 5 Wind & Solar Pushing Down Price of Electricity in Australia http://cleantechnica.com/2012/10/03/wind-solar-pushing-down-price-of-electricity-in-australia/ http://cleantechnica.com/2012/10/03/wind-solar-pushing-down-price-of-electricity-in-australia/#comments Wed, 03 Oct 2012 22:22:08 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=43549 The rules of Australia’s energy markets continue to be redrawn after the South Australian pricing regulator on Tuesday cut its calculation of wholesale energy costs and recommended that retail electricity prices be cut by 8.1 per cent.

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/10/03/wind-solar-pushing-down-price-of-electricity-in-australia/feed/ 1 Lots of Solar Power May Reduce, Not Increase, Electricity Prices http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/15/lots-of-solar-power-may-reduce-not-increase-electricity-prices/ http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/15/lots-of-solar-power-may-reduce-not-increase-electricity-prices/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 08:00:58 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=38013   Whether German feed-in tariffs or U.S. tax incentives, opponents of solar rail at its perceived high cost. But a story making rounds recetly, “Why power generators are terrified of solar,” presents a powerful image that may flip this conventional wisdom on its head. Building lots of solar power can actually reduce electricity prices, to

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/15/lots-of-solar-power-may-reduce-not-increase-electricity-prices/feed/ 7 The State of Commercial Solar Power in Australia http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/03/the-state-of-commercial-solar-power-in-australia/ http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/03/the-state-of-commercial-solar-power-in-australia/#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 12:00:54 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=37626   Commercial-scale and utility-scale solar power are viewed as the next frontier for the solar industry in Australia. The incentives that drove the wild boom in residential solar power — state-run feed-in tariffs coupled with federal up-front discounts in the form of renewable energy certificate — have mostly died down, and at present, the home

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/03/the-state-of-commercial-solar-power-in-australia/feed/ 53 German Utilities Fight Solar’s Cost-Cutting Merit Order Effect http://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/01/german-utilities-fight-solars-cost-cutting-merit-order-effect/ http://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/01/german-utilities-fight-solars-cost-cutting-merit-order-effect/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2012 06:08:39 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=35390 A utility backlash against solar as a result of electricity price competition has resulted in a win for German utilities. German environment minister Norbert Roettgen announced a cut of up to 29 percent in solar feed-in tariffs on all solar installed after March 9th 2012, followed by monthly reductions until the end of the year,

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/01/german-utilities-fight-solars-cost-cutting-merit-order-effect/feed/ 5 How German Solar Has Made All German Electricity Cheaper http://cleantechnica.com/2012/02/29/how-german-solar-has-made-all-german-electricity-cheaper/ http://cleantechnica.com/2012/02/29/how-german-solar-has-made-all-german-electricity-cheaper/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2012 01:06:17 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=35308   A study finds solar lowered the price of peak electricity in Germany by up to 40 percent. Solar produced about 3% of industrious Germany’s total electricity, but when it produced it matters more than how much, because of a utility ranking system for putting the most cost-effective power on the grid, called the Merit

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/02/29/how-german-solar-has-made-all-german-electricity-cheaper/feed/ 15 Solar PV Reducing Price of Electricity in Germany http://cleantechnica.com/2012/02/09/solar-pv-reducing-price-of-electricity-in-germany/ http://cleantechnica.com/2012/02/09/solar-pv-reducing-price-of-electricity-in-germany/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:49:36 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=34741 Oh, the solar power haters* are going to love this one---a recent study by Germany's Institute for Future Energy Systems (IZES), conducted on behalf of of the German Solar Industry Association (BSW-Solar), has found that, on average, solar power has reduced the price of electricity 10% in Germany (on the EPEX exchange). It reduces prices up to 40% in the early afternoon, when electricity demand is peaking and electricity typically costs the most

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/02/09/solar-pv-reducing-price-of-electricity-in-germany/feed/ 17 Wind Power is Making Electricity Cheaper (Exxon: Wind to be Cheapest Source of Electricity) http://cleantechnica.com/2011/05/02/wind-power-is-making-electricity-cheaper-exxon-wind-to-be-cheapest-source-of-electricity/ http://cleantechnica.com/2011/05/02/wind-power-is-making-electricity-cheaper-exxon-wind-to-be-cheapest-source-of-electricity/#comments Mon, 02 May 2011 11:00:01 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=26529 Following up on my overview post on the cost of wind power, here's a little discussion on some more intricate matters related to wind power

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