Grid fees: Government’s policy U-turn met with criticism in Eastern Germany
Thüringer Allgemeine
Politicians in the Eastern German state of Thuringia have called on the federal government to align power prices across the country, Thüringer Allgemeine reports. Federal economy minister Sigmar Gabriel’s backtracking on plans to standardise electricity grid fees nationwide came as a “bad surprise”, Thuringia’s economy minister Wolfgang Tiefensee said according to the newspaper. While most of the Energiewende’s expenses, such as the renewable surcharge, were “naturally” distributed among national consumers, the “unfair” cost distribution of grid expansion among Eastern Germans would be “cemented” if Gabriel pushed through with his plans, Tiefensee explained.
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