News Digest Item
12 Mar 2018

No stone left unturned – opinion

Berliner Zeitung

If and when the RWE-E.ON deal is approved by cartel authorities and the companies, the restructuring of Germany’s energy sector will be far from complete, writes Thorsten Knuf in an opinion piece for Berliner Zeitung. “It’s only a matter of time before more spectacular mergers in the power sector,” he writes. As soon as the new government decides on the conditions of Germany’s coal exit, market consolidation will start in this segment as well, Knuf writes.

Find the opinion piece in German here.

For background, read the CLEW dossier Utilities and the energy transition and the factsheet Germany’s largest utilities at a glance.

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