Price brakes often bypass small and medium-sized industrial companies

Berlin The federal government will not let Germany go to pieces as an industrial location: Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) recently promised this again. The traffic light coalition is backing this up with action: Energy-intensive companies benefit under certain conditions from the price brakes for electricity and gas.

But the help often misses the point, complains Rainer Kirchdörfer, director of the Foundation for Family Businesses. “Even for energy-intensive companies, the hurdles in the draft laws on gas and electricity price brakes are extremely high,” he says. If this stays the case, many companies would have to bury hope that energy costs will continue to be dampened.

While large, listed companies criticize the maximum subsidy limit of 150 million euros, small and medium-sized industrial companies have other concerns. An overview – with no claim to completeness.

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