RWE: Preliminary decommissioning of units of lignite power plants Niederaußem E and F

Niederaußem E and F will be preliminarily decommissioned as per 1^st October 2018 due to §13g of the German Energy Industrie Act (“EnWG”) and will from this date forth until their final decommissioning be available only on request of transmission system operators pursuant to § 1 paragraph 6 of the Regulation on the Security of Power Supply (“Elektrizitätssicherungsverordnung”).