The company will soon indicate the planned closure of theplants to transmission system operator Transnet BW and the Federal NetworkAgency. The TSO will then have to verify whether the power plants in questionare relevant for the stability of Germany’s energy supply.

The network agency in December had forbidden EnBW toshutter four other power plants in nearby Marbach and Walheim with a combinedcapacity of 668MW, whose closure the utility had requested in July 2013, andordered EnBW to continue operating them until at least July 2016.

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