Germany might need new gas power plants – Uniper CEO
Rheinische Post
Germany might need new gas power plants to balance out the fluctuating feed-in by renewables, Uniper CEO Klaus Schäfer tells Rheinische Post in an interview. “The question of supply security is going to resurface, at the latest when the last nuclear reactor goes offline in 2022,” said Schäfer. Schäfer added that he could imagine building new plants “at some point or re-fitting existing ones. But not in the current market environment.”
Read the interview in German here.
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