- The EU’s Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) has recommended splitting up Germany’s single electricity bidding zone in a move that prompted concern in the country’s south, where prices are kept artificially low.
- For Germany, ACER came up with four alternative configurations that split the country’s single power market into four bidding zones.
- A common assumption is that electricity prices in the south would be twice as high as those in the North if the zones were split, owing to the lack of renewable energy generation and slow grid build-out.
Germany split over EU’s suggested electricity market reform
