An updated outline seen by Recharge and okayed at an extraordinary cabinet meeting at Meseberg castle outside Berlin foresees a lowering of the support for onshore wind as well as a cap on its expansion, additional cuts to feed-in tariffs (FITs) for offshore wind, further hardship for PV, and the introduction of tenders.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel explicitly backed Gabriel’s reform proposals, calling the Energiewende – Germany’s shift from nuclear to renewables – a “project of the entire federal government.”
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