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    German coal plants vital for electricity supply, importers say


    FRANKFURT, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Germany's power plants run on hard coal remain an important back up to guarantee supply when volatile wind and solar power are not available, coal importers lobby VDKi said in a statement on Thursday, calling for better remuneration.
    VDKi's call comes in a regulatory limbo ahead of national elections on Feb. 23, three months after Germany's coalition government collapsed, and after recent high price periods in wholesale power that harmed industrial consumption and burdened households...

    Bouts of dark and calm weather in early November and mid-December, known in German as "dunkelflaute", meant wind and solar plants were not producing.


 
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