The Industry and Trade Ministry is against a permanent guarantee of purchasing prices of electricity generated by future new units of the Temelin nuclear power plant as well as against a guarantee of return on investment, Minister Martin Kuba said yesterday. CEZ seeks the introduction of a "British model" under which the state would pay it the difference in price in the event that market prices are lower, whereas CEZ would pay a surplus to the state in the opposite case. The Industry and Trade Ministry is only willing to set a such a system for a limited period of time, Kuba said. /Neutral, We see no market and financial logic behind Temelin enlargement without guarantee of future purchase price at the moment as German wholesale power prices have more than halved since 2008 as the economic crisis cut demand and wind turbines and solar panels increased supply, while a slump in EU carbon permits to a record low has removed much of nuclear’s advantage over fossil fuels