German online site
Stromreport writes that
since the year 2000,
the average electricity
price for
private households
has risen from 13.94
to 30.43 euro cents
per kilowatt hour
(in 2019), among the
highest electricity
prices worldwide.
According to Stromreport,
“Taxes, charges and levies
have tripled since 2000
[from 5.19 to 16 cents].
In total,
German government
charges now account
for more than half
of the electricity price
[52.5%].”
Annually, hundreds
of thousands of
German households
see their power cut off
due to unpaid power bills.
Tagesspiegel reported in 2018:
“In the past year, almost
344,000 households in Germany
had their electricity turned off.
This is according to the
monitoring report of the
Federal Network Agency
on the electricity market.”
Stromreport writes that
403 suppliers have already
raised electricity prices
by an average of 5.3%,
so far in 2020.
“A 3-person household
currently pays almost
89 euros for its electricity.
That is 27% more
than 10 years ago
[69.09 euros].”
The price in 2020
is expected to reach
31.47 cents per
kilowatt-hour.
Another component
of the German
electricity price
are the green energy
feed-in tariffs for power
coming from wind and
solar farms.
German consumers
pay 6.756 cents
per kilowatt-hour
to subsidize them.
AUSTRALIA:
Australia had the world’s
cheapest electricity in 2000.
Thanks to wind and solar
power, Australia now
has the most expensive
electricity of the
advanced nations.
They have large
coal reserves,
but send their coal
to China, where it is
burned for cheap
reliable electric power.
China sells them
wind turbines and
solar panels, to
produce expensive
unreliable electric
power.
They have large uranium
reserves, but can’t even
discuss nuclear power !