Leading renewables player concerned

One German utility has been leading the way in its own energy transition — launching a €9bn ($12bn) programme in 2008 to provide 100% renewable electricity to its residential customers by 2015, and to its industrial clients by 2025.

But Stadtwerke München (SWM), which is owned by and provides power for the city of Munich, fears that proposed changes to Germany’s renewables system may make these targets impossible.

SWM invests in a wide range of renewables projects around the continent, but says it may have to halt investment in Germany if a temporary moratorium or retroactive cuts are made to the feed-in tariff.

“It is completely impossible to make [long-term] investments for an offshore wind park, of about €1.5bn-2bn, if I don’t have absolute planning security in terms of the…

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