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Public expert hearing of the Committee for Climate Protection and Energy, German Bundestag
- Publishing date
- 19 December 2023
- Authors
- Georg Zachmann
On 13 December, 2023, Bruegel Senior fellow Georg Zachmann contributed to a public hearing of Committee for Climate Protection and Energy, German Bundestag on the federal government's draft law, Draft Second Amendment Act of the Energy Industry Act.
You can read the document here.
About the authors
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Georg Zachmann
Georg Zachmann is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel, where he has worked since 2009 on energy and climate policy. His work focuses on regional and distributional impacts of decarbonisation, the analysis and design of carbon, gas and electricity markets, and EU energy and climate policies. Previously, he worked at the German Ministry of Finance, the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin, the energy think tank LARSEN in Paris, and the policy consultancy Berlin Economics.
- Language
- English
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