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Will lower power prices due to Covid dent zero-subsidy renewable energy hopes?

Coronavirus-struck electricity demand has slashd wholesale prices, making merchant projects a riskier prospect, writes Bernd Radowitz

A technician monitors electricity levels in front of a giant screen showing the eastern German electricity transmission grid in the control center of grid operator 50 Hertz.
A technician monitors electricity levels in front of a giant screen showing the eastern German electricity transmission grid in the control center of grid operator 50 Hertz.Foto: Sean Gallup/Getty Images
  • Bernd Radowitz
Published 7 May 2020, 06:25Updated 7 May 2020, 17:43
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