Wind energy at see act: BWO Managing Director, Stefan Thimm, comments on the German Government's counter-statement on the Federal Council's opinion

September 3, 2020

“It is not true that introducing a second bid component will relieve electricity customers in the long term. On the contrary, several independent studies show that contracts for difference are clearly the better choice here and would reduce the electricity production costs by around 30 percent compared to the second bid component. In addition, manufacturers, large parts of industry and the financing banks as well as politics support the demand for contracts for differences. It is simply incomprehensible to me that the federal government is still sticking to a demonstrably less advantageous model. "(Stefan Thimm, BWO Managing Director)

In the run-up to the expert hearing on the amendment of the WindSeeG scheduled for September 09th, the BWO Twitter campaign #procfd started. Various stakeholders are in favor of the introduction of contracts for difference for offshore wind projects in Germany.

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