A more rapid planning permission process for network infrastructure is chief among the demands issued in a ten-point plan to the German government by transmission system operator Amprion.
Amprion said it wants to see a three-year cap introduced to planning permission and called for less weight to be given to noise and interference.
Amprion produced the plan in response to the new government’s aim to phase-out coal by 2030, eight years earlier than planned.
The operator said it was particularly affected by the political change in direction, with a large number of coal-fired power plants in the North Rhine-Westphalia, where Amprion controls the transmission network.
Amprion chief technology officer Hendrik Neumann said: “It is not enough just to think about whether there will be sufficient secure generation in 2030.
“For a coal phase-out by 2030, we have to consider all the elements that are necessary for a safe system operation.”
The report also warned that without urgently commissioned compensation systems, outages would become more likely.
Amprion provisionally put the demand for a “momentary reserve” at 516 gigawatt seconds by 2030 and called for coal-fired power plants to be allowed to supply reserve energy, until alternatives became available.
The Amprion plan also includes calls for a “system market”, which in future would, in addition to capacity mechanisms, give signals as to where new power plants, storage capacity and electrolysers should be installed to maintain system stability.
The grid operator also called for an instantaneous energy reserve market to be created and for incentives to be introduced for “sufficiently secured generation capacity”.
Furthermore, it wants to see continuous review of the energy pricing system to stop possible false incentives that could arise from high scarcity prices and fluctuations.