News Digest Item
26 Oct 2018

Energy ministry will hold electricity price summit in January

Clean Energy Wire

Germany’s energy minister Peter Altmaier will invite businesses to an electricity price summit in January to discuss rising power prices for small and medium- sized companies, he announced this week. Industry association BDI said that rising power prices were posing problems to “all companies of all sizes”. The summit was coming too late, the BDI said.

Read the BDI press release in German here.

For background, read the CLEW factsheet How much does Germany’s energy transition cost?

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