{"id":6188,"date":"2026-07-16T16:34:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neon.energy\/?page_id=6188"},"modified":"2026-07-21T12:44:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T11:44:24","slug":"integration-costs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/neon.energy\/en\/integration-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewables integration cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;7\/12&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"margin-bottom: 35px;\">Renewables integration cost<\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 35px;\">Client: Agora Energiewende<br \/>\nPublished: 2015<\/p>\n<p>Wind and solar provide electricity when the weather dictates, and the costs of integrating them into power systems are central to debates on the cost of renewables \u2014 yet their proper measurement is hotly contested among academics and policymakers. For Agora Energiewende, Neon reviewed the evidence and advised the think tank in preparing an overview paper on the debate, structuring the different perspectives on integration costs. The work built on two expert workshops in Berlin and Paris, organized together with IDDRI, which Neon helped run.<br \/>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/neon-energie.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hirth-300x239.png\" width=\"200\" \/><br \/>\nProf. Dr. Lion Hirth<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:hirth@neon.energy\">hirth@neon.energy<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"tel:+4915755199715\">+49 157 55 199 715<\/a><br \/>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<br \/>\n[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<br \/>\n<strong>Report<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/neon.energy\/reports\/Neon-Integration-Costs.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/neon.energy\/reports\/Neon-Integration-Costs-Thumb.webp\" width=\"280\" style=\"border: 1px solid #666666;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<br \/>\n<strong>Related work<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/neon.energy\/en\/eu-electricity-market\/\">Electricity market reform<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/neon.energy\/en\/ee-ausschreibungen\/\">RE auction design<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/neon.energy\/en\/market-design-renewables\/\">Electricity market design<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/neon.energy\/en\/courses\/\">The Economics of Renewables<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/neon.energy\/en\/renewables-support\/\">Renewables Support<\/a><br \/>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;7\/12&#8243;][vc_column_text] Renewables integration cost Client: Agora Energiewende Published: 2015 Wind and solar provide electricity when the weather dictates, and the costs of integrating them into<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6188","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neon.energy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neon.energy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neon.energy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neon.energy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neon.energy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6188"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/neon.energy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6493,"href":"https:\/\/neon.energy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6188\/revisions\/6493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neon.energy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}