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*Committee hearing gave no answer:* Absurd fines for green energy remain in force
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Around 2,000 solar panel and wind turbine owners have received fines for producing too much green electricity. It makes absolutely no sense, they say.
Nils-Jørn Krejberg's turbine produces too much green electricity. It costs a fine of 10,000 kroner for 10 kilowatt-hours. - It's idiotic, he says. (Photo: © Kristine Kammersgaard) Today at 6:18 PM
After a lengthy session at today's committee hearing, Tax and Growth Minister Jakob Engel-Schmidt (Moderates) ultimately had to admit that it is stupid for wind turbine and solar panel owners to receive fines for producing too much green electricity.
But it took a while, according to Nils-Jørn Krejberg from Lemvig. He has himself received a fine of 10,000 kroner:
- It's interesting to hear the minister dodge the question again and again. But gradually it becomes more and more concrete, and he acknowledged that it was a mess and something they had to work on, he says.
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Idiotic!
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Niels Jørgen Krejberg thinks it's somewhere between comic and tragic that "the greenest government ever" punishes green electricity producers for producing too much green electricity:
- It seems idiotic, quite simply. It seems like a hindrance to the green transition. I mean, deep down, it's enough to make you cry. We have a turbine that has produced 220,000 kilowatt-hours, and I find that this is what they don't want. By finding some trivialities where it has exceeded in fractions of minutes, he says.
Nils-Jørn Krejberg says he knows solar panel and wind turbine owners who have a heater running at full blast with the windows open. Solely to keep their electricity production down and avoid fines.
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The minister will not promise anything
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The question is whether today's committee hearing will change the minds of Jakob Engel-Schmidt and the current government:
- He didn't promise anything. No, he didn't. So I'm still skeptical. It's also about politicians' credibility when they say they want to reduce CO2, and then punish those who help with that, he says.
Today's committee hearing was called by Mathilde Hjort Bressum from the Liberal Party and Hans Kristian Skibby from the Denmark Democrats, and the frustrated wind turbine owner from Lemvig hopes they maintain their pressure on the minister:
- I saw some politicians in the committee who understood it and who argued for it. I hope it will work, he says.
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