News Digest Item
20 Apr 2017

“The disconnected”

Die Zeit

The costs of financing Germany’s transition to a low-carbon economy should be more fairly distributed, as low-income households currently spend a higher share of their income on the electricity levies and taxes that help finance the Energiewende, writes Laura Cwiertnia in German weekly Die Zeit. Salaries, unemployment benefits and social assistance payments have not increased enough to make up for rising power prices, while private households are burdened with offsetting industry exemptions on energy taxes and levies, Cwiertnia writes.

Read the article (behind paywall) in German here.

For background read the CLEW factsheet Germany ponders how to finance renewables expansion in the future and the CLEW dossier Energiewende effects on power prices, costs and industry.

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