Cut power taxes to advance climate protection – utility association
Handelsblatt / Utility association BDEW
The government should cut power taxes and levies to boost the energy transition and climate protection, argues Stefan Kapferer, head of utility association BDEW, in an op-ed in the business daily Handelsblatt. Kapferer argues that electricity must become cheaper to make the use of renewable power more attractive in the heating and transport sectors. Kapferer says in the short term, the discussions in the coal exit commission are an even more important argument to cut taxes and levies on electricit, because phasing out lignite will push up power prices.
Read the op-ed in German here.
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