2023-05-13 14:17:07
While electricity prices are highest in the north, they are lowest in the south, says Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania’s Prime Minister. “There must be equal and fair prices in Germany.”
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania’s Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig (SPD) has called for a reform of electricity prices in Germany. “We currently have a totally non-solidarity system in Germany,” said Schwesig on Saturday in Schwerin. While electricity prices are highest in the north, they are lowest in the south. “There must be equal and fair prices in Germany.”
Schwesig pointed out that northern Germany, with wind farms and liquid gas terminals, ensures energy security from which southern Germany benefits. “We pay the highest prices for it here and it can’t stay like this.” She advised the Prime Ministers of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, Markus Söder (CSU) and Winfried Kretschmann (Greens), to consider “that you can’t always expect the highest prices from those who produce them energy”.
Six federal states are fighting against higher electricity prices because of a lower expansion of wind power. A uniform electricity price zone is an expression of a uniform German economic area, write the prime ministers of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland in a statement published on Friday. The northern German non-city states had called for Germany to be divided into different electricity price zones at the expense of southern Germany. According to a September report by “Welt am Sonntag”, the northern German states want to push through cheaper electricity prices for their citizens and companies.
“The allegation of the southern German colleagues is not true,” said Schwesig. The north produces the green energy. The people there paid the highest electricity prices for it. That is a question of acceptance. “Germany as an industrial location is at risk if we don’t succeed in producing enough green energy.” (dpa)
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