More than 100 euros less electricity costs per year?
Traffic light apparently cancels EEG surcharge - earlier than expected
Created: 03/02/2022 17:21
By: Andreas Schmid
The traffic light cancels the EEG surcharge: Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD, left), Robert Habeck (Greens, center), Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, and Christian Lindner (FDP), Federal Minister of Finance.
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No more EEG surcharges.
The traffic light coalition is apparently planning to abolish it early - this summer.
Berlin - The EEG surcharge will be dropped, apparently earlier than expected.
According to information from
Spiegel
, the federal government wants to abolish them as early as this summer.
According to the magazine, the traffic light coalition wants to cancel the EEG on July 1 of this year instead of in early 2023.
After initial hesitation, Chancellor Olaf Scholz* (SPD) also approved the measure.
Previously, there were already tendencies towards early abolition.
EEG surcharge: three-person household could save 130 euros per year
With the EEG surcharge introduced in 2020, electricity customers are helping to finance the expansion of renewable energies.
The grand coalition had already agreed in the last legislative period that consumers should be relieved when they decided on the CO2 price on fossil fuels.
The early deletion now means a relief of several billion euros for consumers.
A three-person household should save an average of around 130 euros a year with the abolition of the EEG surcharge.
However, it currently seems unclear whether the relief will fully reach the population or whether electricity suppliers will increase prices.
Consumers are currently not feeling much of the reforms.
Traffic light: Lindner is pushing for a quick decision to abolish the EEG surcharge
On Thursday, before the report was published, Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) was already pushing for a quick legal reform to abolish the EEG surcharge.
"We are just waiting for a corresponding decision from the coalition, which I advise," he told the
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
.
His ministry is ready to finance the abolition.
"Per month, private households and companies could be relieved by a good 1.1 billion euros." The FDP was already considered an opponent of the EEG surcharge.
"The necessary funds are available in the climate and energy fund," Lindner continued.
"For these purposes we have strengthened it with the last supplementary budget." The second supplementary budget for 2021 recently passed by the Bundestag provides for the fund to be increased by 60 billion euros.
Unneeded credit authorizations from the previous year will be used for this purpose.
In order to implement the hoped-for relief for electricity customers, the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) must be amended.
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