News Digest Item
10 Aug 2017

“Germans just love paying sky-high prices for green energy”

Fortune Magazine

Germans are almost all in favour of expanding the use of renewable energy, despite the fact that government subsidies for renewables mean that Germans pay high electricity prices in relation to other European countries, writes David Meyer in an article for Fortune Magazine.

Read the article in English here.

For background, read the CLEW factsheets What German households pay for power and Polls reveal citizens' support for Energiewende.

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