Germany’s expert commission charged with drawing up plans to ease the impact of soaring gas prices on consumers favors a one-off payment this year and a price break from next March or April, a draft of a key paper seen by Reuters showed. The commission favors the state giving households and businesses a one-off payment worth one month’s gas bill this year, according to the paper. It is still working on a separate scheme for big gas consumers in the industrial sector. In a second phase, the state could subsidize 80% of projected gas consumption, with consumers having to pay the other 20% at market prices, incentiziving energy savings. The subsidized price could come in around 14 […]