“Energy industry attacks “cost driver” CSU”

German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) head Stefan Kapferer warns that calls from the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) for recurring compensation payments to farmers if power transmission lines are built on their premises would make grid expansion much more expensive, writes Beate Tenfelde for Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung. Such plans are “poison to the mammoth project Energiewende”, Kapferer told the newspaper. The CSU called for these payment in its  “Plan for Bavaria”, campaign programme, presented alongside the joint federal election programme with its sister party, Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union.

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For more information, see the CLEW dossier The energy transition and Germany’s power grid and the dossier Vote2017 - German elections and the Energiewende.