When the white book on an electricity market for the energy turnaround has been published, market player have discussed beforehand a lot about the market design being a competition between a capacity market and an energy only market. Looking deeper into the white book shows, that much more is in discussion.

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Looking deeper into the white book shows that the decision about the power market design or more the enforcement of the current market mechanism is a significant element where the free price fixing on the electricity market is guaranteed and the misuse of market power becomes more transparent. Stricter rules within the balancing groups should apply and the balancing must take place every 15 minutes.

However, beside the power market design more measures are needed to achieve the goals of an energy turnaround. One of these measures is the flexible and efficient electricity supply, which should be optimized nationally and in the European level to guarantee a cost efficient and environmental friendly use of the power plant capacities. The white book suggests the development of the power market on an European level and to open the balancing market to new market players also should the costs for the grid extension be reduced by the reduction of peak production from renewable energies.

On the grid level, it is necessary to develop a price model for cost elements and grid fees, where a special focus lies on the flexibilisation of grid fees depending on the customer flexibility of load shifting.

On the demand side, more flexibility must be created. Due to the fact, that usually here are mostly small scale which do not have direct market access, it is necessary to allow the aggregation of flexible consumer. This will succeed by the introduction of smart Meter. The electro mobility will be supported, because positive effects are expected for the energy turnaround.

On the production side new tasks are necessary. Within the current discussion of security of supply it is not clear, what is the minimum production which is needed for a stable electricity supply. Therefore it is necessary to quantify the minimum production needed. Additionally the combined heat and power production should be integrated more into the electricity supply and the transparency on electricity production data would be increased more.

As last element on the production side additional measures are needed to guarantee the security of supply, especially monitoring systems for the security of supply. Additional power plant capacities are needed, and a capacity reserve should be implemented and a grid reserve should be developed.

These additional measures around the market mechanism are essential and will become a supporting pillar of the energy turnaround, but do need more detailed specifications.