Security of supply: Söder and Özdemir call for more new power plants in the south
Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg consider the results of the first power plant tender to be insufficient. That's why Söder and Özdemir are now demanding changes to the rules.
Bavaria's Minister-President Markus Söder and Baden-Württemberg's Minister-President Cem Özdemir have called for changes to the tender conditions for new backup power plants. They argue that new gas power plants should be built in southern Germany, particularly in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, where they are most needed for supply security and grid stability.
The first round of tenders saw most of the awards go to RWE and Leag, which plan to build new power plants at existing or former coal power plant sites, with some involving the conversion of brown coal blocks. The two ministers criticised the results, saying that instead of new gas power plants in their states, the conversion of decommissioned and no longer needed brown coal blocks in the north is being subsidised.
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