Bavarian economy minister wants to make renewables support reform coalition negotiations topic
Ilse Aigner, economy minister of Germany’s biggest state Bavaria, aims to make lowering power prices a key topic in the coalition negotiations after the general elections in September, reports news agency dpa. She demands a reform of Germany’s renewables support system. Should the CSU [Christian Social Union] be part of the coalition talks – which I hope – we will enter the negotiations with concrete demands for predictable and affordable power prices,” said Aigner. She plans to present a report on the system reform before the summer break, writes dpa. The CSU is the Bavarian sister party of Angela Merkel’s CDU.
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For more information, see the 91tv factsheet Germany ponders how to finance renewables expansion in the future and the dossier Vote2017 - German elections and the Energiewende.