German households pay around a third more for electricity than the EU average, despite the country’s impressive efforts to ditch fossil fuels.
OK bullshit already from the first sentence! 🤮 🤡
Germany is expensive because they chose to close their nuclear power, and scrambled to replace it, and have high taxes on electricity. It’s neither because or despite renewable energy.
Denmark has way more renewable energy than Germany, but it has been built since already in the 70’s.
The reason Denmark is expensive in 2025 is because we had a 0,90 DKK tax which is equivalent to 0,12 €.
Without that we would be at 0,21 or near the bottom of the prices in EU. And our electricity is 91% renewable, while Germany only has 61%! The tax was removed in Denmark per January first 2026.
It’s also extremely misleading to list the prices including taxes, hiding the actual cost without tax.
When it’s a tax, it’s not the electricity, but part of the entire tax structure of the country, for instance higher energy tax could mean lower tax on vegetables, and vice versa.
AFAIK the article was not supposed to be about tax, but about electricity prices.
Bullshit article with bullshit false info. German electricity is NOT expensive because of renewable, but because of taxes and closing the nuclear power plants before replacement of that power was in place.
OK bullshit already from the first sentence! 🤮 🤡
Germany is expensive because they chose to close their nuclear power, and scrambled to replace it, and have high taxes on electricity. It’s neither because or despite renewable energy.
Denmark has way more renewable energy than Germany, but it has been built since already in the 70’s.
The reason Denmark is expensive in 2025 is because we had a 0,90 DKK tax which is equivalent to 0,12 €.
Without that we would be at 0,21 or near the bottom of the prices in EU. And our electricity is 91% renewable, while Germany only has 61%! The tax was removed in Denmark per January first 2026.
It’s also extremely misleading to list the prices including taxes, hiding the actual cost without tax.
When it’s a tax, it’s not the electricity, but part of the entire tax structure of the country, for instance higher energy tax could mean lower tax on vegetables, and vice versa.
AFAIK the article was not supposed to be about tax, but about electricity prices.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_renewable_electricity_production
Bullshit article with bullshit false info. German electricity is NOT expensive because of renewable, but because of taxes and closing the nuclear power plants before replacement of that power was in place.