A number of German conventional power plants reported outages on EEX Transparency at the start of the week after traders had expected higher availability Friday.
RWE's Neurath E lignite plant will be limited by 604 MW from Wednesday to Saturday, according to EEX Transparency. Uniper's 875 MW coal-fired Heyden is out from Monday to Wednesday, while EnBW's 514 MW Rostock coal plant will be offline in a planned outage until Saturday.
EnBW also announced an unscheduled limitation at its coal-fired plant in Heilbronn, which lowers output by 200 MW until Thursday. Over November 3-10 the plant will reduce output by 778 MW as scheduled last week.
Low Rhine levels, which are hampering transportation of hard coal, have had an impact on some hard-coal fired plants in recent weeks, and remain critically low, with levels under 60 cm at the Kaub chokepoint this week, forecast data from the Rhine River Authority showed Monday.
The 1.4 GW Philippsburg nuclear plant remains restricted by 100 MW due to external factors until Wednesday, EEX data showed. A sharp lift in wind generation this week, peaking above 40 GW Tuesday, according to spotrewables data, are set to soften price spikes and put pressure on short-term power.
