10 Apr 2017

56 percent of German power price from taxes and levies

Verivox

The share of taxes and levies German households have to pay for power has reached a new all-time high, price comparison website Verivox said in a press release. The state’s share in the power bill “now accounts for 56 percent for private customers – an increase of 17 percentage points compared to 2007,” Verivox said. Power costs for the average German household with an annual consumption of 3,500 kilowatt hours (kWh) amounted to 994 euros per year, Verivox said, adding that the total sum of taxes and levies for power in Germany was estimated to reach 21 billion euros this year.

See the press release in German here.

For more information, see the CLEW factsheets What German households pay for power and Germany ponders how to finance renewables expansion in the future.

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