Economic and regulatory framework conditions for integration of renewable energy sources into the liberalised market

The necessity of the wide use of renewable generation is nowadays self evident. However, the corresponding technologies like wind, PV or fuel cells are still being developed. Thus far, they have not reached the break even point and must be supported by different economic (subventions) and regulatory (priority) frameworks. The VDE/ETG studied this problem in the scope of a Task Force (TF)on Smart Distribution in order to identify the need for new mechanisms, which should be mapped during the next German Renewable Energy Law (EEG) revision. In this paper the authors, who are members of the above- mentioned TF, present the methodology of the investigations and discuss new proposals concerning the EEG revision.