Energy Transition: E.on CEO Calls for "System Turnaround for Renewable Energies"

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Overproduction of solar power has brought the energy market several times to its limits in the past few weeks. The head of the largest grid operator is now demanding a transformation from politics.

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Eon CEO Leonhard Birnbaum has called on the German government to draw consequences from the recent disruptions in the electricity market. This shows that the expansion of renewable energies has already been very successful, the head of Germany's largest grid operator told the "Welt am Sonntag" newspaper. Now, however, it is crucial to build a system so that this new energy source actually works. Recently, unusable surplus solar power has repeat…