‘Energy industry wants to suspend power stations’

“In response to the green energy boom, energy producers [with coal, gas and nuclear facilities] are planning to take several dozen of their power plants offline,” reports Süddeutsche Zeitung
To date, 15 requests to suspend operations have been registered, including one submitted by E.ON, Germany’s main energy producer, which plans to suspend operations at 11 European power stations by 2015.
And ”this may only be the beginning”, writes the daily, which worries the trend could result in power shortages. According to information obtained by the newspaper, up to 20 per cent of the 90,000 megawatts of non-renewable German production capacity could be taken offline.