Do the high electricity grid fees burden the northern German locations more than others? In northern Germany, the states are now demanding differentiated price zones. There is criticism above all of Bayern.
The northern German non-city states are in favor of dividing Germany into different price zones for electricity. According to a report by “Welt am Sonntag”, the countries want to ensure more justice in electricity prices. “If I live or produce where the energy is produced or landed, this energy must also be cheaper there,” Lower Saxony’s Energy Minister Olaf Lies (SPD) is quoted as saying. The north has been bearing the brunt of the energy transition for years.
According to the report, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania’s Energy Minister Reinhard Meyer (SPD) criticized: “The level of electricity grid fees burdens end consumers and disadvantages the north German business location.” It cannot be the case that countries that shoulder a large share of the expansion of renewable energies have to cope with the highest electricity prices.
Bavaria on the “wrong way in energy policy”
According to the report, Schleswig-Holstein’s Energy Transition Minister Tobias Goldschmidt (Greens) calls a division into price zones “the logical consequence of the energy policy aberration” of Bavarian state governments. For more than 15 years, they have sabotaged the expansion of power grids and wind power. It was “simply no longer possible to explain to the people in the north why they have to foot the bill for it”.
In the past, demands for a new regulation of the so-called distribution grid fees have repeatedly come from the north. Critics have repeatedly pointed out that regions with a lot of renewable energy, for example from wind power, are burdened with higher fees.
“If, after the EU, the northern German states are now also discussing whether Germany needs two electricity price zones, that shows how badly the CSU has failed in terms of energy policy,” said the Green Party parliamentary group leader in the Bundestag, Katharina Dröge, on Saturday the north. The Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder must “finally present an immediate plan for the expansion of wind energy.” The 10H distance rule for wind in Bavaria must fall. The rule stipulates that wind turbines should be at least ten times their height from residential buildings.
Source: Stern
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