News Digest Item
25 Nov 2016

E.ON continues to seek compensation for temporary shutdown of nuclear power plants

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

German utility E.ON continues to seek compensation from the German government for the abrupt decision to temporarily shut down two nuclear power plants after the disaster in Fukushima in March 2011, writes Marcus Jung in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. E.ON is appealing a court ruling from the regional court (Landgericht) of Hanover from July and demands 382 million euros in damages.  

Read the article in German here.

Find out more in the CLEW factsheet Legal disputes over the nuclear phase-out and the CLEW dossier The challenges of Germany’s nuclear phase-out.

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