Achim Wambach, President of the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW), welcomes the fact that the measures on the particularly affected households focus. “Promoting everyone from taxpayers’ money would not be expedient.”
According to Wambach, that should Saving gas and electricity priority to have. “Measures to reduce electricity and gas prices should therefore only be used with caution,” said the ZEW President. In extreme cases, such measures could only lead to a further increase in prices Wambach finds it good to be credited at a reduced price and to be billed for consumed quantities at the current electricity price: “This keeps incentives to save electricity”. A similar model can also be used for gas consumption.