Energy transition costs: Retailers and consumers could save 5.2 billion euros
Federation of German Consumer Organisations (vzbv) / Association of German Retailers (HDE)
Fairer distribution of the costs of the Germany's energy transition could save consumers and the retail sector up to 5.2 billion euros, according to a joint paper from the Federation of German Consumer Organisations (vzbv) and the Association of German Retailers (HDE). Industry is the biggest power consumer, yet retail and private consumers pay the most for the Energiewende, the paper says. It proposes:
- Lowering the electricity tax to minimum EU tax rate
- Reducing the liquidity reserve in Germany’s green energy account
- Ending industry exemptions from the renewables levy for self-consumption
- Ending power grid fee industry exemptions
- Abolishing the regulation on interruptible loads
Read the paper in German here and find the press release in German here.
For background, read the CLEW factsheet Germany ponders how to finance renewables expansion in the future.
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