The Bavarian Business Association (vbw) gave Germany a poor report regarding the energy transition. Amprion wants to invest around 27.5 billion euros in expanding and converting the transmission network by 2028.
The company was able to start construction of the A-Nord direct current connection a year earlier than planned. According to a current study, the cost of electricity is expected to remain high in the long term.. The federal government is pouring billions of euros into network expansion. The network operator TransnetBW warns: “As long as network expansion does not keep pace with the expansion of renewable energies, there will be more network bottlenks.” “Energy is still too expensive in Germany. The balance between climate protection, security of supply and affordability has been lost,” complained the Amprions CEO. “That would almost halve network fees and relieve the burden on the economy and consumers quickly and unbureaucratically,’ calculated Dr. Hans-Jürgen Brick.