Reuters sul calo di RWE.
RWE said part of its onshore wind fleet in Texas had been partly out of service from Feb. 9 because of icing and grid issues that have dealt a major blow to the second-largest U.S. state.
“Priority number one is to safely resume operations at our production sites,” said Silvia Ortín Rios, chief operating officer, wind onshore and solar photovoltaics Americas, at RWE’s renewables division.
Hundreds of thousands of homes in Texas are coping without heat for a fourth day on Thursday after utilities made some progress restoring power while freezing temperatures are expected to last through Saturday.
The crisis has led power prices to spike as high demand from residential heating clashed with lower availability of plants, RWE said, forcing the company to buy volumes for as much as $9,000 per megawatt hour to meet its supply obligations.
The United States is RWE’s top renewables market, accounting for 38% of its roughly 9 gigawatts of installed renewables capacity.
Shares in Europe’s third-largest renewables player were down 2.1% to 31.76 euros at 0858 GMT.