European countries paid a total of €2.5 billion ($2.8 billion) in capacity payments to power plant operators in 2018, according to a report published on Monday by the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER). The Ljubljana-based agency said this was a 7% increase year on year and that the payments – which are funded usually by end-users – were expected to increase in the coming years as more countries implement auction-based systems.
Capacity payments are subsidies paid to gas-fired, nuclear and...
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