"However, I hope that the underlying effect will improve and lead to an overall price reduction." This will never happen under the Greens, and probably not und

"However, I hope that the underlying effect will improve and lead to an overall price reduction." This will never happen under the Greens, and probably not under any other government coalition either. Prices that governments charge do not go down. They don't unwind projects, they create them. That is the underlying systematic force that people should understand: while ostensibly their job is to provide services, the pragmatic reality is, everyone in that systems wants more money, more power, and they have innumerable interesting ideas for how to spend more money, hire more people. Without the sobering reality of competition to establish true cost of capital, then it's just very easy to assume 'spending/investment creates' value - and the system grows. There is a simple reality to your spike in Energy prices, which is total mismanagement of energy policy. You are literally 'paying the price'. That is the 'cost' of whatever it is the objectives really are.