“Politicised power grids”
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Social Democrat and federal economy minister Sigmar Gabriel blocked a reform of power grid fees for political reasons, writes Heike Göbel in an opinion piece for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Gabriel backtracked because a reform “would be very expensive for the citizens of North Rhine-Westphalia. The [upcoming] state election will influence how strong the Social Democrats are at the start of their campaign for the federal election in September. It’s political calculations like these that rob the Energiewende of efficiency and acceptance,” writes Göbel.
Read the opinion piece in German here.
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