At the end of April, Spain and Portugal recorded the most difficult interruptions in the electricity supply in history, and last week the other parts of the Czech Republic remained without electricity.
Supply disorders have opened questions about the resistance of the European electricity system.
Europe rely more and more on electricity, in conditions of increased demand by the given centers and centers for artificial intelligence. At the same time, companies try to include electricity from renewable sources.
Outdated European infrastructure is difficult to deal with such pressure and it is necessary to expand it in a short time, and more than in the past two decades, they assess in BCG.
A group of 15 leading operators should by 2029. year to double operating cash flow, to 120 billion euros, they calculated in the BCG.
The planned capital investments should be tripled, to 345 billion euros, the BCG experts found.
Since it will also have to pay dividends from 25 to 30 billion euros, it means that the investments will have to provide an additional 250 billion euros, through borrowing, the sale of actions or property or reduction of dividends, notes.
The operators are already in charge, and those whose actions are traded on the stock exchange faces fierce competition in the capital race.
“If we do not find new network infrastructure financing solutions in the short term, Europe could have a top production of consumers because the network has not accompanied that trend, a partner from BCG and the Report Coordinator.
BCG’s report is based on data for the 15 largest European operators from Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. The authors do not induce details on subsidies that individual operators receive, the Reuters list.
(Vijesti.ba)
