Revised in 2000, it became the EEG, which, depending on your point of view, has been the single most successful spark to the global Energy Revolution (my view), or an unnecessary burden on German ratepayers, featuring a big slug of overpriced PV for which ratepayers will be coughing up for most of the next 20 years.

While a complex and overarching piece of legislation, the EEG (and its relatives and spin-offs in other parts of the world), had two things which set it apart: a) a fixed price for power production that you could take to the bank; and b) priority access to the grid.

These