“Germany to get free offshore wind! Wait, what?”
energytransition.org
Winning companies of recent offshore wind auctions could not “simply walk away from the deal” - as indicated by a newspaper article - if wholesale power prices did not increase as planned , Andreas Wagner, managing director of German Offshore Wind Energy Foundation (SOW), told Craig Morris in an interview for energytransition.org. They had already made million-euro down payments which they would lose in that case, together with the costs to enter the auctions in the first place, said Wagner.
Find the article in English here.
Read more on the auction in the CLEW article Operators to build offshore wind farms without support payments.
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