Die optimale Standortwahl von Stromerzeugungsanlagen

To achieve Germany’s climate protection goals, power generation has to be fundamentally transformed, which means that conventional power plants must be replaced with renewable energy and corresponding storage facilities. Up to now, the power plants have been situated around the country according to their locations’ conditions rather than whether those locations were economically optimal. Three approaches can be used to situate power plants according to an effective system: G / L components; market splitting; regional components in a feed-in tariff and the strategic reserve / capacity market.
This work answers the question of which of these approaches is most feasible in creating an optimal system of locating power plants. To this end, it examines how political will is formed using a discourse analysis and a discourse network analysis. By analysing the discourse coalitions’ potential for power, their financial resources and argumentative networking, this study determines the strength and viability of each approach.