The government has indicated that it is considering electricity support for vulnerable businesses. Managing director Christian AK Aass of Aass brewery believes that it is well overtime.
– That those who are elected have not done anything about this is still very strange, if I had been in their shoes I would not have had the conscience to take a summer holiday until it was sorted. You have to be closer to and not take the value creation that takes place in small and medium-sized companies as a matter of course, he says to E24.
He is supported by Knut Johannesen, who is the general manager of Sagene Bryggeri. He says beer brewing requires electricity.
– Households and farmers have received electricity packages, but small and medium-sized businesses have not received anything. It is quite clear that high electricity prices strongly affect the cost structure of companies, so the politicians should find a solution, says Johannesen to the same newspaper.
When asked whether high electricity prices will lead to an increase in retail prices, both breweries answer yes.
– That is clear, says Aass.
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