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Cross-border cannibalization: Spillover effects of wind and solar energy on interconnected European electricity markets

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  • Clemens Stiewe
  • Alice Lixuan Xu
  • Anselm Eicke
  • Lion Hirth

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The average revenue, or market value, of wind and solar energy tends to fall with increasing market shares, as is now evident across European electricity markets. At the same time, these markets have become more interconnected. In this paper, we empirically study the multiple cross-border effects on the value of renewable energy: on one hand, interconnection is a flexibility resource that allows to export energy when it is locally abundant, benefitting renewables. On the other hand, wind and solar radiation are correlated across space, so neighboring supply adds to the local one to depress domestic prices. We estimate both effects, using spatial panel regression on electricity market data from 2015 to 2023 from 30 European bidding zones. We find that domestic wind and solar value is not only depressed by domestic, but also by neighboring renewables expansion. The better interconnected a market is, the smaller the effect of domestic but the larger the effect of neighboring renewables. While wind value is stabilized by interconnection, solar value is not. If wind market share increases both at home and in neighboring markets by one percentage point, the value factor of wind energy is reduced by just above 1 percentage points. For solar, this number is almost 4 percentage points.

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  • Clemens Stiewe & Alice Lixuan Xu & Anselm Eicke & Lion Hirth, 2024. "Cross-border cannibalization: Spillover effects of wind and solar energy on interconnected European electricity markets," Papers 2405.17166, arXiv.org.
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