‘Europe revives plan to increase electricity charges’

Published on 29 May 2013

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The latest proposal to reduce emissions quotas on the carbon credits market, which is under discussion in the European Parliament, will increase electricity prices.
The change will affect 12,000 European energy companies and industrial businesses, as well as hundreds of millions of consumers, warns the business newspaper.
One further consequence could also be that plans to build new reactors at the Temelin nuclear power station may become economically viable.

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