News Digest Item
28 Sep 2016

“Scapegoat Energiewende”

Frankfurter Rundschau

Raising grid fees substantially - and the resulting rise in cost for electricity in Germany announced for the turn of the year – is not fully justified, Claudia Kemfert of the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin), told Frankfurter Rundschau. “An oversized grid expansion and state-guaranteed excessive grid fees lead to disproportionate power price increases” and the Energiewende would be the scapegoat, according to Kemfert.

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