The company’s new white paper finds that Germany’s energy transition challenges such as renewable curtailment, grid congestion and rising system costs cannot be solved by any single technology. Instead, they require an integrated system planning approach that links demand growth, renewable expansion, grid build-out and dispatchable capacity into one coordinated framework.
“The Monitoring Report gets it right: Germany will need additional dispatchable capacity,” said Markus Becker, Executive Director, System Economics, GE Vernova’s Consulting Services. “The scale and timing, however, depend on how quickly flexibility, grid expansion and demand evolve together. The answer is not one variable, it is how they work in concert.”
Building on this analysis, GE Vernova outlines 4 priorities for policymakers and planners as Germany implements the findings of the BMWE report:
- Accelerate integrated system planning to align decisions on generation, transmission and flexibility investments, ensuring reliability at the lowest total cost.
- Scale flexibility and storage by expanding battery, demand-side and digital solutions that make electricity demand an active contributor to system balance and help reduce renewable curtailment.
- Deploy modern, efficient gas generation alongside technology-neutral decarbonisation solutions, providing fast-response backup for renewables while enabling future decarbonisation of thermal assets.
- Advance market design for flexibility and adequacy by developing capacity and capability mechanisms that value firm capacity, fast response and low-carbon flexibility together.
The paper also highlights the need for regional coordination within Europe’s interconnected power market and resilient supply chains for generation equipment, transformers and grid infrastructure. Maintaining a strong domestic and European manufacturing base is key to ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget.
The full white paper can be accessed here.
GE Vernova has played a central role in Germany’s power sector for more than 100 years. Its equipment and solutions support approximately 30% (46 GW) of the country’s installed capacity and continue to underpin efforts to modernise and decarbonise the German grid.
about GE Vernova
GE Vernova is a purpose-built global energy company that includes Power, Wind, and Electrification segments and is supported by its accelerator businesses. GE Vernova is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., with approximately 75,000 employees across approximately 100 countries around the world.
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