News Digest Item
05 Jan 2018

Reducing power prices and increasing fuel prices for sector coupling

Spiegel Online

Making electricity cheaper and heating and transport fuels more expensive would be a first step towards successful sector coupling in Germany, writes Stefan Schultz in an opinion piece for Spiegel Online. Renewables expansion costs for consumers would be “more bearable,” petrol and diesel cars less attractive, and heating insulation would pay off sooner. The next government should work on this, “rather than endlessly arguing about the coal exit. It would provide the opportunity to design the energy transition in a holistic way,” writes Schultz.

Read the opinion piece in German here.

For background, read the CLEW factsheet Germany ponders how to finance renewables expansion in the future.

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