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2015
Study
Title

Electricity costs of energy intensive industries

Title Supplement
An international comparison. For the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy
Abstract
The study "Electricity Costs of Energy Intensive Industries" examines, in detail, the composition of electricity prices in Germany and ten other countries: the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Denmark, Canada, the United States, China, Korea and Japan. It identifies the effects of the special regulations on the competitiveness of industrial companies in Germany on four levels of analysis. Energy prices are a key factor for the competitiveness of many German companies. To finance the energy transition, the costs of promoting renewable energy technologies in Germany are passed on to the consumer, predominantly via energy prices (i.e. electricity prices). A large number of levies as well as the electricity tax currently increase the price of electricity and thereby electricity costs of industries. In order to limit the burden, especially for energy-intensive industries, the German government has created different rules for exemptions and tariff reductions (privileges). For the same economic considerations of competitiveness, competing national economies have introduced special regulations for industrial electricity consumers. In four scenarios this study shows how changes in privileges affect the German economy in total. The results show the importance of the special equalisation scheme in the German renewable energy law. If this scheme would be abolished, the production in single companies might be shut down. In this case employment and export reductions would be expected as well as decreasing economic performance.
Author(s)
Grave, Katharina
Hazrat, Mandana
Boeve, Sil
Blücher, Felix von
Bourgault, Charles
Breitschopf, Barbara  orcid-logo
Friedrichsen, Nele
Arens, Marlene
Aydemir, Ali  orcid-logo
Pudlik, Martin  
Duscha, Vicki  
Ordonez, Jose  
Lutz, Christian
Großmann, Anett
Flaute, Markus
Publisher
Ecofys Germany GmbH  
Publishing Place
Berlin
DOI
10.24406/publica-fhg-297725
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Language
English
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