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Germany's biggest power producer RWE to phase out coal by 2030

Global Economy

Reuters
04 October, 2022, 02:45 pm
Last modified: 04 October, 2022, 03:01 pm

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Germany's biggest power producer RWE to phase out coal by 2030

Reuters
04 October, 2022, 02:45 pm
Last modified: 04 October, 2022, 03:01 pm
A Stop sign stands in front of the Neurath lignite power plant of German utility RWE, west of Cologne, Germany, January 16, 2020. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
A Stop sign stands in front of the Neurath lignite power plant of German utility RWE, west of Cologne, Germany, January 16, 2020. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay

Germany's largest power producer RWE said on Tuesday it is bringing forward its coal phase-out by eight years and is ready to end lignite-based electricity generation in 2030 as part of a deal reached with the German government.

However, faced with a Europe-wide energy crisis after Russia slashed gas deliveries following its invasion of Ukraine, RWE said it would temporarily boost its use of power plants fuelled by heavily polluting lignite, or brown coal.

"In the current crisis, we are contributing to security of supply in Germany by temporarily increasing the use of our lignite-fired power plants, and are thus also helping to displace gas from electricity generation," Chief Executive Markus Krebber in a statement.

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"At the same time, we are investing billions of euros to accelerate the energy transition and are ready to phase out lignite by 2030," he added.

Krebber said the company would not request additional compensation for moving the phase-out date forward beyond the 2.6 billion euros ($2.6 billion) it was promised under the previous plan.

The German government in November agreed to "ideally" bring forward the country's exit from coal-fired power generation to 2030, compared with a previous goal of 2038, but that plan still required negotiations with the individual operators.

As part of the move, the decommissioning of RWE's Neurath D and E power plant units, which are scheduled to be taken off the grid at the end of this year, will be deferred until March 31, 2024, and remain on the market, as communicated last week.

Berlin has until 2023 to extend the lifetimes or to transfer the units to a power plant reserve, with both options limited until March 31, 2025.

To safeguard security of supply beyond 2030, the German government can also decide by 2026 to keep RWE's last lignite-fired plants on standby until the end of 2033.

"These include a 600-megawatt unit and the three modern lignite-fired power plants with optimised plant engineering, which have a total capacity of around 3,600 megawatts (MW)," RWE said.

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