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Click on the top to follow us (Reuters) — Germany said on Friday it will launch the first tender for the construction and modernization of 12.5 gigawatts (GW) of gas power plants that can switch to hydrogen by the end of 2024 or early next year, following industry pressure. The tenders are part of efforts to supplement wind and solar energy and speed up the transition to low carbon generation as Germany shifts to renewables, having switched off nuclear power. Germany's top utilities, notably RWE, EnBW and Uniper, have long criticized the lack of details for the scheme, warning that this could put at risk Germany's plan to accelerate the phase-out of coal. The plans include two tenders for building new hydrogen-ready gas power plants, each round of 5 GW capacity, in addition to 2 GW tenders for retrofitting old gas power plants for the use of hydrogen, 0.5 GW of long-term storage and 0.5 GW for fully-hydrogen-powered plants, the economy ministry added. Investment costs and the differe
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