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Back-up power plants: Commission wants a more differentiated risk assessment

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Published: March 5th, 2024,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

Decommissioned gas-fired power plant in Duisburg

When approving capacity mechanisms for the electricity market, the EU Commission wants a more differentiated risk assessment of the security of supply in the EU. „We have different risks in the member states,“ Catharina Sikow-Magny, Director of the Directorate-General for Energy, told Table.Briefings on Tuesday on the sidelines of a solar conference in Brussels. An interruption of Russian gas supplies, for example, had not been taken into account in the central scenario of the European assessment of the adequacy of resources.

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