Tag: Electricity price brake
Municipal utilities increase electricity and gas prices by up to 110 percent
electricity price Germany’s electricity customers have to reckon with dramatic price increases. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Shortly before the end of the year, some households received unpleasant news from their energy…
The ban on bonuses and dividends becomes a point of contention in the gas price brake
Rolf Mützenich (SPD, left), Britta Haßelmann (Greens) and Christian Dürr (FDP) The leaders of the traffic light groups need to talk about the possible bonus and dividend ban as part…
The ban on bonuses and dividends becomes a point of contention in the gas price brake
Rolf Mützenich (SPD, left), Britta Haßelmann (Greens) and Christian Dürr (FDP) The leaders of the traffic light groups need to talk about the possible bonus and dividend ban as part…
Gas price brake and electricity price brake should apply retrospectively from January
Berlin The electricity and gas price brake should apply retrospectively from January. The federal government decided on Tuesday. This means that the last disputes surrounding the planned reduction in energy…
The excess profit skimming becomes a bureaucratic monster
Wind turbines in Lower Saxony The revenue cap should be defined separately for each individual system. (Photo: dpa) The planned skimming off of excess profits does not end well. The…
Ministry of Economics presents draft law for gas price brake
gas storage From March 2023, household and commercial customers are to receive 80 percent of their annual consumption from their natural gas supplier at a price of twelve cents per…
Consumer advocate Ramona Pop is concerned about the preservation of jobs
Berlin The head of the Federal Association of Consumer Organizations (VZBV), Ramona Pop, has warned of permanent damage to the German economy due to the energy price crisis. “It is…
Government energy aid is necessary, but not a permanent solution
Chancellor Scholz, Economics Minister Habeck and Finance Minister Lindner Olaf Scholz, Robert Habeck and Christian Lindner with the report of the Gas Expert Commission. (Photo: AP) It’s difficult to keep…
What you need to know about the relief now
Relief for electricity and gas costs A one-off payment for the high gas costs is to be credited to gas customers on their December bill. (Photo: IMAGO/Laci Perenyi) Berlin Gas…
What you need to know about the relief now
Relief for electricity and gas costs A one-off payment for the high gas costs is to be credited to gas customers on their December bill. (Photo: IMAGO/Laci Perenyi) Berlin Gas…
Aldi plans food delivery service – click and shop
Good morning dear readers, Aldi Süd is planning what is probably the largest online offensive in the company’s history. In the USA, the discounter is testing a web shop for…
Aldi plans food delivery service – click and shop
Good morning dear readers, Aldi Süd is planning what is probably the largest online offensive in the company’s history. In the USA, the discounter is testing a web shop for…
Is Germany threatened with deindustrialization? Ifo boss Fuest in an interview
Dusseldorf The mood in the German economy is worse than it has been since May 2020. In October, the Ifo business climate index fell to 84.3 points – a drop…
Investing in times of crisis – you ask, we answer (part 2)
Dusseldorf Within just one year, the world has experienced a fundamental change that is increasingly making itself felt in the business world: inflation, fears of recession and interest rate hikes…
Collecting random prizes is right – and incredibly complicated
Economics Minister Robert Habeck His ministry is pushing ahead with plans for an electricity price brake. (Photo: dpa) The gas price brake follows a concept for an electricity price brake,…
Habeck wants to skim off random profits from energy companies
Coal power and wind turbines affected A new electricity price brake is intended to relieve consumers and help corporations with excess profits. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The electricity price brake planned…
Habeck wants to skim off random profits from energy companies
Coal power and wind turbines affected A new electricity price brake is intended to relieve consumers and help corporations with excess profits. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The electricity price brake planned…
Gas and electricity price brakes should help
Robert Habeck The federal government expects a decline in German economic output, as the Federal Minister of Economics will announce on Wednesday. (Photo: dpa) Berlin In its latest economic forecast,…
Gas and electricity price brakes should help
Robert Habeck The federal government expects a decline in German economic output, as the Federal Minister of Economics will announce on Wednesday. (Photo: dpa) Berlin In its latest economic forecast,…
SMEs are pushing for the gas levy to be abolished
Berlin The federal manager of the Federal Association of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (BVMW), Markus Jerger, is pushing for the gas surcharge to be dispensed with because of the energy…