Buthe rejected the creation of a full-fledged capacity market that would include allloss-making fossil power plants in the country.
Thegovernment should verify at which locations regional capacity mechanisms areneeded, he said.
“We willlook at that in discussions with industry and utilities,” Gabriel said at anenergy conference in Berlin.
“But we won’tinclude all conventional (fossil) power plants in a capacity market. That wouldbe a bit expensive.
