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WindEurope message to national Governments on electricity markets

You will decide new rules for revenue caps on inframarginal electricity generation at the Energy Council on 30 September.

These are important: you must support families and businesses with their energy bills. But at the same time you want more renewables: for energy security, climate protection and cheaper electricity bills in the long-run.

More renewables require huge investments. Investors need clear rules around their likely revenues. A new EU-wide revenue cap of €180/MWh for all forms of inframarginal generation gives them that.

But if Governments are free to deviate from that, clarity goes out of the window. Especially if you decide to set different caps for different types of electricity generation. Investors don’t know what the rules will be. The rules could change at any moment. This makes investing in your country too risky. And you won’t get the investments you want.

The message is simple:

Ignore this and you turn away investments in renewables. You cement Europe’s dependency on fossil fuel imports. You worsen the energy crisis.

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