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Executive SummaryWhile day-ahead prices for electricity are being extensively studied, the literature so far has neglected the analysis of intraday market prices. Intraday markets are becoming increasingly important in the presence of high shares of electricity production from intermittent renewable energy sources. Trading the deviations of the actually realized production profile from the day-ahead planned one in the intraday market may enhance system security and increase social welfare. This paper contributes to the electricity market pricing literature by exploring the influence of theoretical price determinants on intraday prices, presumably for the first time. The empirical analysis confirms that wind forecast errors, solar forecast errors and outages have significant influences on intraday prices. Nevertheless, only a minor share of power plant outages and solar power forecast errors are traded on the electronic intraday trading platform, thus influencing prices not as strongly as expected. Furthermore the price determinants influence intraday prices differently over the course of the day, e. g. wind forecast errors have a stronger price impact during the time from midnight to eight am than during the rest of the day. This may be explained by an alternating liquidity provision.Practitioners may benefit from this study because the understanding of intraday price developments is a prerequisite for the assessment of the market value of (1) flexible power plants like gas turbines or pump storage plants and (2) intraday portfolio positions. Researchers might be interested in the results of this study as it lays a foundation for further more theoretically orientated research projects about intraday markets.