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March 20, 2018, 4:29 PM UTC

German Energy Firm in Talks With EU Over Throttled Power Flows

Eleanor Tyler

By Eleanor Tyler

German electricity company TenneT TSO GmbH faces allegations from the European Commission that it throttled Danish electrical capacity entering Germany on its transmission network.

The EU and TenneT are “in constructive discussions to design a set of commitments” to address EU concerns, according to March 19 statements from both the EU and TenneT. “As part of this collaboration,” TenneT said it has developed “concrete solutions and will submit them today to the commission.”

The EU’s competition commission opened a formal investigation into TenneT’s capacity curbs, saying they were an “abuse of dominance” on the German power market. ...

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