Yeah, it’s the same in Germany. (And to add insult to injury, people in places with renewable generation often pay higher grid fees due to the investments necessary to connect all the new plants.)
Wind power and other intermittent sources create grid instability, which drives up costs.
And to my knowledge, Germany has chosen not to have different bidding markets within the country (or has at least kept prices consistent across its four markets) to protect vital industries in the west?
Is that really an honest way to frame this?
The fact that Bavaria keeps sabotaging north-south transmission capacity is a uniquely German mistake, as is the insistence of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg to keep the single pricing zone.