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Position on EEG
UFZ economists around Prof. Dr Erik Gawel have defended the German Renewable Energy Sources Act (Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz EEG). In a position paper titled "False Alarm: Cost Tsunami and Command Economy through Energy Transition?" they reject the criticism of the EEG being solely responsible for the high prices of electricity. They argue that there never has been a purely market-driven energy supply. The current infrastructure, too, has in the past decades been controlled by technology-political interventions. In their paper, the social scientists write that establishing the right framework conditions and effecting price adjustmen
