Renewables and power markets must be brought together

Fixed feed-in tariffs have produced heavy increases in the volume of electricity generated via renewables, but their continued existence diminishes the strength of price signals in European power markets. Steffen Köhler puts forward a different approach

All participants on an electricity exchange share something in common – an interest in power, or in prices in general. At the same time, many of these companies come from different backgrounds. An exchange involves thousands of people from all walks of life - be they financial traders, power marketers, producers or consumers – and all these people have access to various pools of information that