Solar: Katherina Reiche needs to utterly abolish subsidies for householders – Greens react angrily | EUROtoday

Federal Minister of Economics Katherina Reiche (CDU) needs to cancel funding for smaller photo voltaic programs. This emerges from a draft regulation that a number of media reported on Thursday. “The funding for systems with an installed capacity of up to 25 kilowatts will be discontinued,” it says within the textual content. This would have an effect on the scale of frequent photo voltaic programs on single and two-family houses. When requested, the ministry didn’t need to touch upon particular factors as a result of the draft was nonetheless being developed.

The step doesn’t come as a shock: Reiche had already campaigned for the in depth withdrawal of subsidies for the set up of solar energy programs final 12 months. The federal authorities promotes the set up of smaller PV programs by guaranteeing a hard and fast price for feeding electrical energy into the grid. Minister Reiche questioned this feed-in tariff.

According to “Politico”, the draft states that the mounted feed-in tariff for brand spanking new programs can be “consistently abolished”. “This goes hand in hand with a comprehensive commitment to direct marketing of new systems,” the portal continues. Up till now, community operators have usually needed to buy electrical energy. “In addition, the complete termination of remuneration at negative prices will be consistently continued,” in line with Politico.

The Federal Association of the Solar Industry (BSW-Solar) was alarmed. “The abolition of the EEG remuneration and the obligation to direct marketing would bring the citizens’ energy transition to a standstill,” defined BSW Solar Managing Director Carsten König. The feed-in tariff is due to this fact nonetheless needed for almost all of recent photo voltaic system operators so as to “ensure sufficient profitability”.

Sharp criticism additionally got here from the Greens within the Bundestag. Reiche is planning a “solar killer,” defined parliamentary group chief Katharina Dröge. The plans will make the photo voltaic roof uneconomical for “a large number of homeowners.” “The most popular form of renewable energy is being deliberately sabotaged,” she added.