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• The extra cost was distributed equally across all electricity
consumers, except for some 500 “energy intensive” enter-
prises. Each consumer had to pay an extra 1.1 euro-cents
in 2008; for the average household, that equated to e3.10
per month. In Germany in 2008, 5 percent of the cost per
kilowatt-hour of 21.6 euro-cents (33 US-cents) accounted
for the FIT/EEG contribution.
• The additional expense is compensated several times over
by the benefits gained:
– external savings of e2.9 billion from the conventional
“polluting” electricity that would have otherwise been
employed;
– the saving of e2.7 billion of imported ...