“Coalition embroiled in row over power grid costs“

The national alignment of expansion costs for Germany’s power transmission grid - a core energy policy demand of eastern German states - could fall prey to dispute between the ruling social democratic (SPD) and conservative (CDU/CSU) parliamentary groups, Andreas Mihm writes for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Saxony’s conservative state premier Stanislaw Tillich urged the government not to postpone a decision to the next legislative period as this would “further intensify social and economic divergences” of the energy transition, Mihm writes. Costs for grid expansion are mostly incurred where construction takes place, making grid fees in the northern, eastern and southern Germany twice as high as in the country’s west, he adds.

See the CLEW factsheet Power grid fees – unfair and opaque? for more information.