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German court rules energy firms can be compensated for nuclear phase-out

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Germany’s highest court has ruled that energy companies have a right to compensation over the decision to phase out the country’s nuclear plants.

The government ordered the shutdown after Japan’s Fukushima disaster in 2011.

Several utility companies – E.ON, RWE and Vattenfall – sued the government, arguing the decision amounted to expropriation.

“Within the government we will of course carefully evaluate the ruling. By the end of the set deadline, June 2018, we will reform the law in such a w…
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