The Federal Cabinet has today decided to reduce electricity tax and network charges. In addition, Jürgen Kerner, second chairman of IG Metall: “The electricity tax reduction and the takeover of the network charges were overdue. A good thing that the federal government has brought both today.
However, this can only be a very first step for energy -intensive industry. The next step must now quickly follow: an internationally competitive industrial flow price, as announced in the coalition agreement. Without this relief for the energy -intensive industries, thousands of jobs in the steel industry and other industries are threatened to be lost forever, without setting up jobs in nine industries such as battery supplies in Germany.
IG Metall calls on the Federal Government to immediately present a specific model for an industrial flow price that creates planning security for companies and employees, sustainably strengthens the competitiveness of the industrial location of Germany and ensures important industrial workplaces for the future. Such an industrial flow price must be implemented at the latest on January 1, 2026. “