Merkel Government Seeks to Speed Up German Power Line Expansion
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Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government wants to speed up the modernization of Germany’s power grid to protect supplies as Europe’s biggest economy shifts its generation mix away from nuclear energy.
The government identified 36 high-voltage power-transmission projects costing an estimated 10 billion euros ($13 billion) as “high-priority” in a draft bill to be debated March 14 in the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament.