Germany’s highest court on Wednesday challenged claims by power firms that a government decision to end nuclear power generation earlier than planned amounted to expropriation of their plants. Following the Fukushima disaster in Japan in March 2011, Germany announced plans to exit nuclear energy by 2022, effectively speeding up a plan first drawn up in 2002 to eventually shut all of the country’s reactors. Utilities argue that the move overturned a decision from late 2010, which backed extending the lifespan of some plants, and plan to claim damages for the production volumes they say they will be forced to forfeit.
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