According to information from the Spiegel magazine from those close to the ministry, it is being considered whether the state should set a fixed price for the kilowatt hour of electricity from lignite and renewable energies that the producers receive.
The producers would have to cede to the state the additional sum that they earn from sales on the electricity markets.
According to the mirror, Habeck's employees are currently calculating how high the fixed price can be set – and how much money the federal government would then take.
Because of the way the electricity market is designed in Europe, it is precisely the high generation prices from gas-fired power plants that determine the prices on the electricity exchanges.
Electricity from renewable energies and lignite is much cheaper to produce, but the producers receive the currently extremely high prices on the electricity exchanges.
Their profits have therefore risen significantly since the outbreak of the Ukraine war.