“The minister has defended his plans to imposeself-consumption with a surcharge, but has shown willingness to compromise inregards to the level of the surcharge,” SMA says.

Current planning in the wake of a reform of Germany’sRenewable Energies Act (EEG) foresees that regular users of self-consumedelectricity in the future will have to pay 50% of the EEG surcharge thatcurrently is set at €0.062