Felix Matthes is research coordinator for energy and climate policy at the German Öko-Institut, the Institute for Applied Ecology. He has drafted one of the major proposals for the reform of the German electricity market, developing a capacity mechanism that favours cleaner, flexible fossil power plants. He talked to Europolitics about the threat national reforms pose to the EU's single energy market, the Commission's course of action and Germany’s lack of a coherent strategy.
Several European countries have already introduced…