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TenneT can face damage claims from indirect customers over power outage, EU's top court says

By Giulia Bedini ( October 8, 2020, 09:28 GMT | Insight) -- TenneT, the Dutch national grid operator, can face damage claims from indirect customers over a blackout which in 2015 left a part of northern Netherlands without power, the EU’s top court ruled today. The court handed down its verdict on the case referred by a Dutch court seeking clarification of whether under EU law companies can sue a grid operator over power shortages, even when they don’t have a direct contractual or physical relationship to it. TenneT, the Dutch national grid operator, can face damage claims from indirect customers over a blackout that in 2015 left a part of northern Netherlands without power, the EU’s top court has ruled....

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