<div dir="ltr"><div>An interesting article about European energy markets, written by a banker who finances them:<br><br>"The Economic and Political Consequences of the Last 10 Years of Renewable Energy Development"<br>
<br><a href="http://www.theoildrum.com/node/10227">http://www.theoildrum.com/node/10227</a><br><br><br>Quote:<br>"...The wholesale market as it was designed 20 years ago (de facto based on
gas-fired plants of various efficiency targeted at different points of
the merit order curve setting up the marginal price) is irreversibly
broken. The system is now dominated by plants with very low marginal
cost of production (but high upfront investment), which means that spot
prices are systematically too low for everybody - you can't invest in
plants with high upfront investments (like nukes), and you can't invest
in plants with high marginal running costs (gas-fired plants) unless you
are betting on persistently low gas prices into the future."<br><br><br></div>Alfio<br></div>