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Germany’s nuclear operators might scrap payments to renewables fund

UPDATE 1-German nuclear firms dodge green fund issue | Reuters, Mar 21, 2011 Report says they might scrap payments FRANKFURT,   – Germany’s nuclear operators dodged addressing a report that they might scrap payments of 300 million euros ($425.3 million) this year into a fund subsidising green energy after they had to close plants for safety checks.Sueddeutsche Zeitung, citing company sources, said last week’s enforced shutdown of reactors built before 1980 for security checks in light of the nuclear crisis in Japan, had prompted the four German operators to consider stopping the payments. [POWER/DE]…..UPDATE 1-German nuclear firms dodge green fund issue | Reuters

March 22, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, Germany