The European Commission approved, on Thursday 3 June, the prolongation and modification of an existing German scheme to support the production of electricity from new, modernised and retrofitted highly efficient cogeneration (‘CHP’) plants), with the exception of coal and lignite-fired CHP.
The ‘Kraft-Wärme-Kopplungsgesetz’ scheme (KWKG 2020), which is approved until 2026, will further promote energy efficiency, lead to a better integration of cogenerated power into the German...