“Too high and unfairly distributed”
tageszeitung (taz)
The fees that consumers pay for Germany’s electricity grid are too high and unfairly distributed across the country's regions, writes Malte Kreutzfeldt in an opinion piece in tageszeitung (taz). He calls for a nationwide harmonisation of the transmission grid fees and the lowering of the equity interest rates for power grid operators further than planned by the Federal Network Agency.
Read the article in German here.
For background read the CLEW article Germany debates form of renewables support as levy rises, the CLEW factsheet Re-dispatch costs in the German power grid and the CLEW dossier The energy transition and Germany’s power grid.
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