ELECTRICITY PRICE IS IN THE AIR Electricity is much more expensive next year. Experts anticipate a price increase of 30 percent. The generous subsidies for green power have put 1.7 billion. Left The consumer receives the invoice presented next year. That The Latest News writes Monday.Gradually it becomes clear how deep the pit the previous Flemish Energy Minister Freya Van den Bossche (Socialist Party) has left behind. Is The subsidies for solar panels and other green energy initiatives are indeed not paid by the Flemish government, but by the distribution network, which were required to do so.Put 1.7 billionThey may, in principle, the costs of it pass on to the consumer, but the former Federal Minister for Consumer Affairs, Johan Vande Lanotte, the distribution tariffs in 2013 and 2014 frozen.Consequence: the network operators pay more and more subsidies and the cost can not be recovered. The total bill has now risen to 1.7 billion, according to figures from the Social and Economic Council of Flanders.If the system remains in its current form, as well as all outstanding debt paid off between 2016 and 2019, will increase the electricity bill of an average household expected to increase by 30 percent from 2013.Also, production cost increasesIn addition, the Federal Planning Bureau made last week announced that the production cost of energy will also shoot up in the coming years. By 2030 there is an investment of 31 billion euros needed for the closure of nuclear power plants cope with investment in renewable energy and new power plants. That would be the production cost sixty percent prop inform the next six years.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 15:37:45 +0000
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