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Germany is the European champion after all!

However, not in football, but in electricity prices.

Christoph Erni, founder and CEO of Juice Technology AG, finds electricity prices in Germany too high. | Photo: Juice Technology
Christoph Erni, founder and CEO of Juice Technology AG, finds electricity prices in Germany too high. | Photo: Juice Technology
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In many columns, I have previously stated that Germany is doing many things right. The techno-nation repeatedly shows that it understands and has the means to better understand how to prepare for the future than others.

All the more disheartening is now to witness that this country is taking a completely wrong path when it comes to electricity prices. The fact that the price for electric energy for private consumers has more than doubled since the turn of the millennium raises questions. Not that production costs have increased. No, it is solely due to socialist redistribution. An artificial inflation that endangers the energy transition and punishes those who want to use clean energy.

A good part of the blame lies with the EEG levy. It is intended to promote renewable energies. The idea behind this law itself is good. But who comes up with the absurd idea of imposing these costs precisely on those who ultimately use the clean energy? If you charge your car with sustainably produced electricity, you should pay an immense surcharge, so that a full charge soon costs as much as if you were refueling and burning fossil, CO2-damaging fuels? 

Germany, you are the bottom of the list in Europe when it comes to electricity prices! It cannot be that every other nation manages to deliver the cleanest of all energies at fair prices – while you artificially increase prices. This does the environment no good. You have solar and wind power plants in abundance. You would have the opportunity to truly promote e-mobility. Not only with subsidies for the purchase of charging stations but with the offer of correctly calculated energy prices. 

Instead, your electricity price continues to rise incessantly. We used to laugh at eastern economies that intervened in the free market. We were amazed at countries that believed the state should artificially raise prices to harass the people. Stop this madness. Or you will not succeed in the energy transition.

 

Translated automatically from German.
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