10 May 2017

RWE might replace Bavarian nuclear reactor with gas turbine

Welt

German utility RWE may build a gas power plant to replace power generation currently provided by nuclear power station Gundremmingen in Bavaria, writes Michael Gassmann in Welt. One of the two remaining reactors at Gundremmingen is scheduled for shutdown this December. The new plant could be constructed close to the site of the nuclear facility and could help stabilise the grid when the nuclear reactor is taken off at the end of the year, according to Gassmann. Both remaining nuclear reactors covered about one fourth of Bavaria’s power needs in 2015, writes Gassmann.

Read the article in German here.

For background read the CLEW dossier The challenges of Germany’s nuclear phase-out and the CLEW factsheet How can Germany keep the lights on in a renewable energy future?

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