Mandatory direct marketing of wind power increases financing costs.

The article focuses on higher financing costs associated with direct marketing of wind power, which is a mandate included in the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) enacted by the German federal government in 2000. Topics discussed include the impact of forecast deviations on operating costs facing plant operators, the difference in transferring costs of forecast deviations to plant operators or to network operators and the impact of the EEG reform on plant operators' revenue.