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Based on their RES supply forecasts and expected electricity prices, these traders take the initial decision on behalf of the installation operator as to whether to remain within the feed-in tariff scheme or to market directly.
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Figure 3 Additional revenues generated by biomass installation operators via participation in the balancing market.
Introducing RES installation operators to the market was therefore only possible through electricity traders (hereafter referred to as 'direct marketers').
Figure 3 gives an example of how biomass installation operators could generate additional revenues through participation in direct marketing including the balancing market for negative balancing energy.
Furthermore, direct marketers would have to 'retrieve' their costs from the installation operators in order to achieve an at least comparatively balanced account.
This would mean that the specific direct marketing costs could also be interpreted by installation operators as a corresponding reduction of the remuneration rates.
Under the EEG 2012, installation operators had the option of switching between direct marketing and feed-in tariffs, where the sale of electricity from RES is centrally managed by transmission system operators (TSOs).
Lower remuneration: For installation operators, mandatory direct marketing without payment of compensation via the management premium implies an indirect reduction in remuneration in the amount of the specific marketing costs and a reasonable margin of profit for intermediaries.
The decrease of the minimum profit until 2019 reflects the increasing expenditures for payments to installation operators, as the portfolio of the direct marketers still grows in the simulation.
They act as service providers to RES installation operators and in that function offer a broad range of services such as preparing feed-in forecasts, communicating schedules to the grid operators as well as financially compensating for deviations or purchasing additional electricity to make up the scheduled amount.
The majority of RES installation operators are not conventional players in the established energy sector and, as a result, most of them have neither infrastructure nor the knowledge required to sell the electricity they produce on the central electricity markets themselves.
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