Where Salzburg AG lets Linz go first

The planned renewables expansion to Slovenia has been cancelled. In the meantime, Energie AG is examining an entry. This causes irritation.

Around 50 percent of the electricity sold by Salzburg AG comes from its own production. Projects such as the Stegenwald power plant and participation in wind projects such as Windsfeld near Flachau and Lehmberg in Flachgau, where Wien Energie could be the largest wind farm in the country, are intended to ensure that the proportion of self-sufficiency increases. Salzburg AG also planned to expand for this, namely towards the south. In Slovenia, the state energy supplier, as part of a consortium, wanted to acquire 29.4 percent of a leading project developer for photovoltaic systems and …