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25 Apr 2017

“Germany to get free offshore wind! Wait, what?”

energytransition.org

Winning companies of recent offshore wind auctions could not “simply walk away from the deal” - as indicated by a - if wholesale power prices did not increase as planned , Andreas Wagner, managing director of German Offshore Wind Energy Foundation (SOW), told Craig Morris in an interview for energytransition.org. They had already made million-euro down payments which they would lose in that case, together with the costs to enter the auctions in the first place, said Wagner.

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Read more on the auction in the 91tv article Operators to build offshore wind farms without support payments.

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