Case Study
Lünen Plant Trip Triggers Price Spike with Lower Renewables
CASE STUDY POWER Genscape.com CASE STUDY Lünen Plant Trip Triggers Price Spike with Lower Renewables On September 4th at 7:50 GMT, Genscape alerted its customers of a trip at Lünen – a couple of minutes ahead of the public source, EEX, where the plant was not identified. The renewable generation during that morning hour came in 3,500 MW lower than forecast (Chart 1) and the unplanned additional loss of 750 MW of coal- fired generation lead