On Wednesday 14 October, the Commission announced that it had given its green light to German plans aiming to support four highly efficient cogeneration plants feeding the district heating networks in Berlin, Cologne, Düsseldorf and Munich, by allocating premiums to them.
The plants serving Berlin and Munich will receive a premium of 1.5 cent per kilowatt hour (kWh) for a maximum of 16,000 hours of operation.
The two other beneficiaries (in Düsseldorf and Cologne) will receive a premium...