“Comparing ‘energy poverty’ in Germany with other countries”
Energytransition.de
Some 350,000 households in Germany are unable to pay the power bills, Craig Morris writes in Energytransistion.de. The figure is available in data provided by Germany’s Federal Network Agency. Such statistics, however, remain largely unavailable in leading western nations. According to Eurostat data, the percentage of German households unable to pay energy bills on time is well below other European countries. In 2014, 4.2 percent of German households were behind on their monthly utility bills, but only 0.9 percent actually had their power shut off.
Read the article in English here.
For more background, see the CLEW factsheet What German households pay for power and the article Welfare groups urge power cost relief for German poor.
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