According to SPD leader Lars Klingbeil, the traffic light government has until December 1 to decide on a state-subsidized industrial electricity price. The Bundestag will then decide on the 2024 budget based on the current status.
“That is the clarification point, until then we have a certainty whether the industrial electricity price will come,” said Klingbeil at “RND on site” in Lüneburg, an event of the editorial network Germany.
New trouble in the traffic light coalition
Klingbeil again spoke out clearly in favor of an industrial electricity price, which Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) sees skeptically. “I now intend to convince those who are still skeptical,” said Klingbeil, also with a view to Scholz. At the same time, he warned of new trouble in the traffic light coalition. “I don’t need a loud argument,” he emphasized.
Yesterday, the executive SPD parliamentary group leader decided on a concept for an industrial electricity price of five cents per kilowatt hour, initially limited to five years.
Call for more discipline
Next Monday, the entire parliamentary group is to decide on this in the presence of the chancellor at a closed conference in Wiesbaden. In the traffic light coalition, the FDP is against state aid to lower electricity prices for certain companies, the Greens are in favor.
Klingbeil once again called on the coalition to be disciplined. You can have different opinions, he said. But “the way that sometimes goes into the hurtful does not help all parties in the traffic light to be better off alone.”
