Dispute between distribution and transmission grid operators
Handelsblatt
Germany’s distribution grid operators are calling for a legal reform to limit the transmission grid operators’ (TSO) powers to intervene in distribution grids, Klaus Stratmann writes for Handelsblatt. An increasingly decentralised power supply due to the energy transition has made distribution grid management more complex, and the national TSOs should be allowed to intervene without warning only in rare instances, Katherina Reiche, director of the German Association of Local Utilities (VKU) told Handelsblatt.
Read the article (behind paywall) in German here.
For background, read the CLEW dossier The energy transition and Germany’s power grid.
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