News Digest Item
04 Jan 2018

“We need a reasonable Energiewende concept” – chemical company CEO

Handelsblatt

Until now, there has not been a “reasonable concept for the Energiewende”, which is needed to secure Germany’s economic strength and make it more climate-friendly, Rudolf Staudigl, president and CEO of German chemical company Wacker Chemie AG, told Handelsblatt in an interview. Staudigl called for a tax-financed transition to a renewables and natural gas-based energy supply, which he said should replace the current levy-based system, in which electricity consumers shoulder the largest cost burden. The Energiewende is a “societal consensus” in Germany, so the state must shoulder its costs, said Staudigl.

Read the interview (behind paywall) in German .

Also read 淨’s factsheet Germany ponders how to finance renewables expansion in the future.

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