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Energy industry association BDEW has rejected to introduce the national 鈥済as price brake鈥� 鈥� a planned measure to keep rising gas prices in check 鈥� months earlier than initially proposed by an expert commission earlier this month. 鈥淏ringing forward the gas price brake to 1 January 2023 is going to fail not because of a lack of will on the part of the energy industry, but because of the impossibility of technical-administrative implementation in such a short period of time,鈥� BDEW president Marie-Luise Wolff said. The necessary conversion of the IT processes was very complex, so that most energy suppliers could not cope with it at short notice. In , finance minister Christian Lindner also cautioned that it might not be 鈥渢echnically possible鈥� to bring the measure forward. However, the government was doing 鈥渆verything in our power to protect the substance of our German economy and what has been built up over decades,鈥� he said.

An expert commission charged by the government with drawing up a plan to relieve gas consumers affected by rising prices proposed to introduce a 鈥済as and heating price brake鈥� from March 2023 to April 2024. A basic quota of 80 percent of gas consumption would be supplied for the relatively low cost of 12 cents per kilowatt hour. For consumption above that level, regular contract prices would have to be paid. The government is currently considering the proposal.