Germany’s “Silent Catastrophe”: 330,000 Households See Power Turned Off In One Year

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The DPA German press agency reported on the rapidly spreading energy poverty now engulfing the country. The main driver is Germany’s skyrocketing electricity prices – primarily due to the legally mandatory feeding-in of wind and solar power. Currently regular household consumers are paying nearly 30 cents a kilowatt-hour – almost three times the rate paid in the […]

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March 9, 2017 at 03:17AM