Since electricity systems of nowadays are increasingly penetrated by renewable electricity generation, the integration and political support of distributed generation became a main topic. Moreover, the constantly growing installation of distributed generators is supported in order to better meet the national and international agreements on primary energy savings and CO2 reductions. Hereby, the grid connection approach and the balancing method of distributed generators are important issues. Different approaches cause different investment costs resulting in varying electricity generation costs...

The global commitment towards a sustainable future energy supply portfolio yields several new technical, economical and political challenges. Thus, understanding the drivers of energy technology investment costs is of key importance. Consequently, the core objective of this book is to identify the simultaneous impact of, on the one hand, energy and raw material prices and technological learning effects, on the other hand, on the investment costs of electricity technologies. Results depict a significant impact of steel prices on wind onshore investment costs, whereas offshore wind investment...