News Digest Item
17 Mar 2017

“Federal state parliament votes for nationwide grid fee parity”

Welt Online / dpa

Saxony’s federal state parliament has voted for aligning grid fees across Germany, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Welt Online. The parliament called on Saxony’s state government to work towards repealing “existing regional imbalances on the expense especially of eastern Germany”, the report says. Grid fees are higher in eastern and northern parts of Germany since more money has been spent on grid expansion in these relatively sparsely populated parts of the country.

Read the article in German here.

For more information, see the CLEW factsheet Power grid fees – unfair and opaque?

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