German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday the costs of the country's planned switch to renewable energy sources and rising energy prices shouldn't become a political issue as the country moves toward an election campaign.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday the costs of the country's
planned switch to renewable energy sources and rising energy prices shouldn't
become a political issue as the country moves toward an election campaign.
"My plea is that we, independent of election campaign times, continue to
sit down together, particularly when it's about changing the renewable energy
sources law," Ms. Merkel said at an economic council of her conservative
Christian Democratic Union party in
Berlin
.
Moving to prevent a political backlash over the costs of shifting to alternative
energy from nuclear power, Environment Minister Peter Altmaier, a senior ally
of Chancellor Merkel, earlier this week announced plans to cap the rise in
household electricity prices and force industry to pay a greater share of the
bill for
Germany
's
energy shift to renewable power.
Germany
is in
the process of exiting all nuclear power generation over the next decade and
shifting its energy supply to renewable energies. The share of renewable energy
on the German market currently stands at about 22%, according to the Economics
Ministry.
"For me it's clear, there has to be a change to the renewable energy law
if we want to keep three things together: price compatibility,
enironmentally-friendliness and security of supply," Ms. Merkel said.
Speaking at the same event Friday, Environment Minister Altmaier said that
legal rules on capping power price increases should be introduced before the
election in the fall, but a reform of the renewable energy law should only take
place after the election.
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