“Tiny steps towards a coal exit”
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Energy utility RWE has transferred two of its lignite-fired power station units in North-Rhine Westphalia into the so called emergency standby reserve. Four of eight coal station units have thus far been committed to the reserve, where they will remain for four years. Utilities receive 1.6 billion euros for this mothballing exercise, which requires them to have the stations at stand-by within a day should their extra power be needed, writes Andreas Mihm in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. However, nobody anticipates that this will ever be the case as the German power market boasts large overcapacities.
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