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Vattenfall nuclear power station Krümmel
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The financial compensation for certain power plant operators because of the accelerated nuclear phase-out after the reactor disaster in Fukushima has to be completely reorganized.
The 2018 amendment to the law was inadequate and also never came into force due to formal deficiencies, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled after a lawsuit by the energy company Vattenfall.
As early as 2016, the Federal Constitutional Court had essentially dismissed complaints by E.on, RWE and Vattenfall against the nuclear phase-out.
However, it had stipulated that the energy companies are entitled to appropriate compensation for investments that have become pointless and forfeited production rights.
In 2018, the Bundestag amended the Atomic Energy Act and decided on compensation.
The Swedish energy company had now again sued the Constitutional Court and criticized that the court's ruling from 2016 had not been correctly implemented.
Because the Bundestag had decided that the operators of the affected nuclear power plants must first try to sell the remaining electricity before a possible financial compensation.
Vattenfall appealed against this.
File number: 1 BvR 1550/19
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