07 Apr 2017

East German state premier criticises power price differences

Welt Online / dpa

Once again, an eastern German state premier has criticised regional discrepancies in the power price, dpa news agency reports in an article carried by Welt Online. Brandenburg’s Social Democrat premier Dietmar Woidke said eastern Germany paid “significantly more” than western federal states, with important impacts for economic development, particularly for energy-intensive industries in the east.
Grid fees account for around a quarter of the power price and are higher in sparsely populated regions, as well as areas where the grid has to be expanded to cope with newly installed renewable energy facilities.

Find the article in German here.

For background, see the CLEW factsheet Grid fees – unfair and opaque?.

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