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News Digest Item
25 Oct 2016

ā€œToo high and unfairly distributedā€

tageszeitung (taz)

The fees that consumers pay for Germany’s electricity grid are too high and unfairly distributed across the country's regions, writes Malte Kreutzfeldt in an opinion piece in tageszeitung (taz). He calls for a nationwide harmonisation of the transmission grid fees and the lowering of the equity interest rates for power grid operators further than planned by the Federal Network Agency.

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For background read the Āé¶¹ĪŽĀė°ę article Germany debates form of renewables support as levy rises, the Āé¶¹ĪŽĀė°ę factsheet Re-dispatch costs in the German power grid and the Āé¶¹ĪŽĀė°ę dossier The energy transition and Germany’s power grid.

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