Germany nears EEG deal with 2.8GW onshore target

Chancellor Angela Merkel and German states during a late night meeting came closer to a compromise on a reform of the country’s Renewable Energies Act (EEG) that includes a 2.8GW gross annual onshore wind target and a higher PV tendering volume, but renewables groups say the deal would bring new hardships for wind and solar.

The energy ministry acknowledged that there was no definitive deal between the states and the federal government, but there was an agreement to move to a tender-based system for renewables support (as planned) as well as to better link the build-up of renewable energies with the grid expansion needed for it.

“We will build up renewable energy and at the same time do that in a way that we won’t expand blindly in order to wonder afterwards why we have to pay for electricity twice – once to wind millers and a second time to a power plant in Austria that supplies electricity when we need it on a certain day,” energy minister Sigmar Gabriel told journalists today.

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Germany nears EEG deal with 2.8GW onshore target