Environment
minister
Peter
Altmaier
has
proposed
a
series
of
"emergency"
measures
to
keep
rising
costs
for
renewable
production
from
pushing
up
power
prices
to
consumers,
which
has
emerged
as
a
huge
issue
in
a
German
federal
election
year.
As
part
of
what
the
minister
calls
an
“electricity
price
fuse”,
the
“reallocation
charge”
for
energy
from
renewable
sources
would
be
frozen
at
its
current
level
of
€0.0528
($0.071)
per
kilowatt
hour
this
year
and
next.
In
subsequent
years,
any
rise
in
that
supplement
would
be
limited
to
2.5%.
The
surcharge
has
jumped
by
50%
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