Deeming that Germany granted unlawful state aid to certain large electricity users from 2012 to 2013 in the form of exemptions from network charges, the European Commission decided on Monday 28 May that Berlin must recover the amount corresponding to the unlawful aid.
Under a German law, between 2011 and 2013, electricity users that had an annual consumption above 10 gigawatt hours and particularly stable electricity consumption were fully exempted from paying network charges. In 2012,...