Grid fees: “The black secret of the energy transition“
WirtschaftsWoche
Germany’s transmission network operators have raised their prices, which leads to higher grid fees payable by consumers with their power price, reports Andreas Macho for the WirtschaftsWoche. Eastern German grid operators rose fees by up to 80 percent, and Amprion, in western Germany, will increase prices by 45 percent in 2018, the article says. The operators blame expensive investments in new grid connections and re-dispatch costs to keep the power grid stable. Analysts claim that calculations by these price hikes lack transparency as related documents are censored.
Read the article in German here.
For background see a CLEW factsheet on power grid fees in Germany here.
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