Berlin In the energy crisis, companies in need should not be left alone. The federal government has therefore been pursuing the idea of a gas price brake for weeks. A specially appointed commission of experts was to look for a solution to dampen the high level of gas prices.
The result of the interim report envisaged using subsidies to lower the gas procurement price for the first 70 percent of consumption to seven cents per kilowatt hour for large industrial consumers. Around 25,000 companies in Germany could take advantage of the help, which is due to start in January.
Now the commission, chaired by business experts Veronika Grimm, BDI boss Siegfried Russwurm and Michael Vassiliadis, chairman of the industrial union for mining, chemicals and energy, has formulated the conditions for state aid in its final report. Excerpts of this report are available to the Handelsblatt and are to be presented on Monday.
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