Uniper reaffirmed its target to render its European power generation carbon neutral by 2035, but is simultaneously going to court over Dutch legislation to exit coal by 2030 and claiming compensation for a coal-fired station at Rotterdam’s Maasvlakte.
The utility owned by Finland’s Fortum claims the MPP3 power plant it took into operation in 2016 through a forced closure in 2030 under the Dutch coal prohibition act would become a stranded asset after an operational life of “only” roughly 15 years.
