No shortages, but supplies necessary

Date: February 18, 2019, No. University of Stuttgart substantially involved in ministry of the environment's study on power supply Power supply in Germany in 2025 will be ensured, but southern Germany will be dependent on the provision of assured capacity from northern Germany and abroad in critical situations. This was the tenor of a study commissioned by the Ministry of the Environment, Climate Protection and the Energy Sector Baden-Wuerttemberg, which was produced by the Institute of Energy Economics and the Rational Use of Energy (IER) as well as the Institute of Combustion and Power Plant Technology (IFK) of the University of Stuttgart and the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Based on a study already produced a few years ago and combined with an update of the data base, the partners investigated the extent to which a reliable power supply in southern Germany will be guaranteed by 2025. The study evaluates the security of supply on the basis of the conventional and renewable power plants in place as well as the current regulatory framework. The decommissioning of conventional power plants and the expansion of renewable energies were also taken into account. The experts analyzed four different weather and load variants - each in the event that conventional power plants are shut down after their expected service life, as well as in the event of an accelerated fossil fuel phase-out.