Production More Expensive Than Import: Is Wind Power Facing the End Due to Planned High Fees?

The government's plans would mean a tripling of grid connection costs. The ongoing grid fees are already the second highest in Europe, and a further increase would "fundamentally endanger" many wind power projects in Austria, writes the president of IG Windkraft, Josef Plank, in a statement. The planned new or increased fees would burden the kilowatt-hour with 1.2 cents, which, measured against the pure electricity price without fees and charges, would mean an increase of around ten percent.

"It is completely incomprehensible why there should be an 'Austria surcharge' for clean and cheap domestic wind power," said Herbert Stava, the president of the Energy Park Bruck/Leitha, in the statement. The industry points out that 8,000 people are employed in over 200 companies in the wind sector.

(APA/Red.)

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