News Digest Item
12 Dec 2018

E.ON head sees risk of anti-Energiewende campaign by right-wing populists

WAZ / dpa

E.ON CEO Johannes Teyssen has warned that right-wing populists might campaign against Germany’s energy transition if power prices do not fall. The anti-immigrant AfD already has discovered the Energiewende as topic, Teyssen told regional newspaper WAZ. “The people were always promised the energy transition would lower power prices. If we can’t keep to that, and smother the countryside with wind turbines, it will take its toll.”

Find a short report on the interview by news agency dpa in German here and the original interview here.

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