{"id":1195,"date":"2016-08-01T16:23:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T16:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reuniwatt.com\/en\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2025-07-01T18:14:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T16:14:52","slug":"case-study-lack-of-flexibility-in-european-electrical-systems-leads-to-deteriorated-grid-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reuniwatt.com\/en\/industry-news\/case-study-lack-of-flexibility-in-european-electrical-systems-leads-to-deteriorated-grid-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Case study: Lack of flexibility in European electrical systems leads to deteriorated grid management"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>How solar forecasting could avoid negative energy prices due to high renewable energy generation.<\/h4>\n<p>The German market was affected on May 8<sup>th<\/sup> 2016 by an exceptional penetration of variable (solar and wind) renewable energy sources (RES) into the grid. The latter represented nearly 87% of the country\u2019s electricity production, causing the occurrence of negative prices of about \u20ac -144.78 on the spot market throughout the day.<br \/>\nThis event was mainly generated by the renewable energies\u2019 variability, which drove grid managers to endure the resources\u2019 oscillations. Thanks to solar production forecasting, an <a href=\"https:\/\/reuniwatt.com\/en\/resources\/\">innovation completely mastered by Reuniwatt<\/a>, solar energy becomes guaranteed. This technology thus easens\u00a0grid management &#8211; even with high-penetration of renewable energy resources-, with the gradual disappearance of negative prices on the spot market.<\/p>\n<p>To know more, <a title=\"Download our case study on solar forecasting to improve grid flexibility\" href=\"https:\/\/reuniwatt.com\/en\/resources\/\"><strong>download our case study<\/strong><\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reuniwatt.com\/en\/resources\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1170 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reuniwatt.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/pic_case-study2_icon_en.png\" alt=\"grid management case study\" width=\"400\" height=\"526\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reuniwatt.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/pic_case-study2_icon_en-228x300.png 228w, https:\/\/reuniwatt.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/pic_case-study2_icon_en.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How solar forecasting could avoid negative energy prices due to high renewable energy generation. The German market was affected on May 8th 2016 by an exceptional penetration of variable (solar and wind) renewable energy sources (RES) into the grid. The latter represented nearly 87% of the country\u2019s electricity production, causing the occurrence of negative prices of about \u20ac -144.78 on the spot market throughout the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[36,90,44,39,51],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-case-study","tag-direct-marketing","tag-energy-trading","tag-solar-forecasting","tag-tsos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reuniwatt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reuniwatt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reuniwatt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reuniwatt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reuniwatt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/reuniwatt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11439,"href":"https:\/\/reuniwatt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions\/11439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reuniwatt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reuniwatt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reuniwatt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reuniwatt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}