News Digest Item
18 Apr 2017

“Capacity market for Germany could cost two billion euros annually”

Rheinische Post

A capacity market in Germany could cost two billion euros annually, RWE’s new CEO Rolf Martin Schmitz said in an interview with Rheinische Post. “Two billion euros is not a lot considering that the power consumer receives supply security for all those days on which the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow,” said Schmitz. A capacity market would be needed due to Germany’s nuclear phase out. 

Read the full interview in German .

For background read the 淨 factsheets Germany's new power market design and Capacity markets around the world.

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