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ENP Newswire
Vattenfall has got off to a good start in 2021 with positive earnings performance, the report for the first quarter shows.
Vattenfall s President and CEO Anna Borg comments on the interim report for the first three months 2021: Operation of our large-scale power generation was stable, and growth and development projects in district heating and wind power reached new milestones. The electricity market has recovered from last year s record-low price levels. We are however seeing continued challenges for transmission of electricity between countries and price areas.
Higher electricity prices but continued transmission bottlenecks
The cold weather early in the year contributed to high electricity prices. Rising costs for CO2 emission allowances and fuel drove electricity prices up further on the Continent, but without any major impact in the Nordic countries. In fact, we had record-large differences between the Nordic and German futures markets and significan