“Municipal utilities: Pressure through renewables expansion”
Deutschlandfunk
German municipal utilities that have invested in fossil fuels over the past years – for example by modernising old coal-fired power plants – now find themselves under financial pressure in part due to the Energiewende, writes Bastian Brandau for Deutschlandfunk. Not all investment decisions could be seen as management mistakes: “We have a short-term, volatile political framework that does not create planning security,” said Oliver Rottmann of the University of Leipzig at the annual conference of the German Association of Local Utilities (VKU).
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