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News Digest Item
23 Nov 2016

ā€œGrid fees: increasing disparitiesā€

Agora Energiewende

³Ņ±š°ł³¾²¹²Ō²ā’s grid fees on average will increase in 2017, but regional disparities and those based on the consumption volume will grow, according to a short analysis by energy think tank Agora Energiewende.* Consumers in rural areas with strong renewables development pay fees that are particularly high. ā€œAs a consequence, power consumers in expensive regions pay more than double for the grid fees than power consumers in the cheap regions,ā€ writes Agora Energiewende in a press release. The only fair solution was the nationwide standardisation of the fees, writes Agora Energiewende.

Find the press release in German and the analysis in German .

*Like the Āé¶¹ĪŽĀė°ę, Agora Energiewende is a project funded by Stiftung Mercator and the European Climate Foundation.  

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