Grid fees: relief for eastern federal states
dpa
The federal government plans to ease the burden that high electricity grid fees present to eastern German federal states, said Brandenburg’s state secretary Dietmar Woidke, according to news agency dpa. The federal government aims to align the transmission grid fees on a national level, Woidke said. To date, the grid fees that power consumers pay as part of their electricity bill are higher in states such as Brandenburg, which have large shares of renewable energies.
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