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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The Fukushima nuclear disaster 10 years ago has had a profound impact on the global power sector, but no other country abroad saw bigger changes to its energy laws, infrastructure and utility landscape than Germany.
FILE PHOTO: Workers wait at a bus stop in front of No. 3 reactor building at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan March 1, 2021. REUTERS/Sakura Murakami
As a result of decisions taken in 2011 following the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear plant explosions in Japan, Europe’s largest economy will soon switch off its remaining reactors. [POWER/DE]
German ‘Energiewende’ transition among Europe’s most ambitious Household electricity bills highest in Europe Warns of supply shortfall risk after reactors switched off Network needs an estimated 85 bln euros by 2030
FRANKFURT, March 30 (Reuters) - Germany’s energy transition has proved too costly and underestimated the risks to supply, a federal audit office report seen by Reuters has found.
Reforms are needed to state taxes and fees to fix a system that has left Germany with Europe’s highest retail electricity prices and at risk of grid blackouts, the as-yet unpublished report said.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to abandon nuclear power by 2022 following Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 has forced the sector to radically restructure.
Indigenous reserves fall, imports to rise Eugal pipeline fully constructed, feeder for Nord Stream 2
FRANKFURT, April 1 (Reuters) - German gas pipeline companies have completed 28 out of 201 measures planned between 2020 and 2030, keeping them on track to provide capacity expansions and conversions for increased imports this decade, industry group FNB said on Thursday.
Germany and its neighbours will need to get more gas via pipelines and seaborne shipments of liquefied natural gas (LNG), because supplies from the region’s reserves are dwindling.
Germany’s north-west and the Netherlands are already phasing out production of their local, low-calorific gas type, meaning transport, storage infrastructure and boilers must be changed to accommodate imported gas that is high-calorific.
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