The EEG lid has to go now! Of course, and then?
The incentive to build photovoltaic systems is limited to a maximum installed capacity of 52 GWp in Germany. This is already nonsensical in 2012, when it was introduced by the then Environment Minister Altmaier, since at least 400 GWp is required in Germany. Altmaier had put the gun on his chest in 2012 after the 'EEG guillotine amendment' initiated by his predecessor Röttgen: Either lid or even more drastic reduction in remuneration. 52 GWp were far away, so cholera was chosen instead of the plague. Since the further amendments to the EEG, however, this cover has only applied to parliamentary remuneration - roughly speaking, for all systems with a nominal output of up to 750 kWp. The tenders are not explicitly affected, they count towards reaching the cover - if only in part. After all, it says in the EEG that a successor regulation is sought in good time before the cover is reached - whatever that looks like. As of today (March 28, 2019), this should theoretically be easier. Because the EEG is not state aid, the EUGH has once again judged this. And so the EU, often made the scapegoat by Minister Altmaier and co. To shift responsibility, ceases to exist. Yes- dear federal government and dear government parties: It is your responsibility alone how in Germany more is finally being done for climate protection in reality. the ECJ has once again judged this. And so the EU, often made the scapegoat by Minister Altmaier and co. To shift responsibility, ceases to exist. Yes- dear federal government and dear government parties: It is your responsibility alone how in Germany more is finally being done for climate protection in reality. the ECJ has once again judged this. And so the EU, often made the scapegoat by Minister Altmaier and co. To shift responsibility, ceases to exist. Yes- dear federal government and dear government parties: It is your responsibility alone how in Germany more is finally being done for climate protection in reality.
If, however, the lid is reached before there is a new regulation for strong expansion incentives, the affected market segment is likely to collapse completely, and the German solar industry would be hit very hard again.
Because it is nonsensical and extremely dangerous, the lid has to be removed. Perhaps it will work in the current negotiations around the necessary additions and corrections to the Energy Collection Act. Even without the consistent suggestions from the solar industry representative that are still missing.
And then?
If the compensation fixed up to 750 kWp 'only' falls with the reduction in the breathing lid, it virtually dissolves. Initially 1% per month, but if 1,900 MWp is exceeded on a rolling basis within 12 months, things go up quickly. And then, even without a lid, the current price level on the electricity exchange will be reached sometime in the second half of 2020 or at the latest in 2021 for systems> 40 kWp. Or the level of current tenders.
Depending on the market, this may continue until after 2022 and the market may even stop before that because the fixed remuneration is no longer sufficient for many complex roofs. Many of the recently massive 'turbo sales' are already realizing that their exorbitant leasing offers can no longer be maintained. Let's see how it works.
But one thing is clear: this type of fixed remuneration is basically no longer there “overnight”.
And so I wanted to think in this blog about succession regulations such as massive volume increases with clever roof tenders or new concepts for after-power supply, modern net metering. But that only describes the task in fragments. And does not change anything about the escalating complexity of EEG, KWKG, ENWG including their braking effect on the expansion of solar energy. But what then?
„Da stehen nicht einmal Kosten oder Preise der Photovoltaik als Hemmschuh“, so ein langjährig in der Solarbranche tätiger Kollege beim Betrachten einer Sammlung von Hemmnissen für den Ausbau der Solarenergie beim PVSymposium in Bad Staffelstein in der vergangenen Woche. Volker Quaschning hatte im Rahmen der seit 33 Jahren stattfindenden Konferenz zu einem Workshop unter dem Titel „Kampagne für 20 GWp PV pro Jahr“ eingeladen, und der Raum war brechend voll. Die Sammlung von Hemmschuhen war umfangreich, und nachdem Thomas Nordmann von TCN aus der Schweiz anregte, über einen „Ersatzneubau für das EEG“ nachzudenken, ergab eine Abstimmung, dass mehr als 85% der anwesenden Solarprofis die Zeit für eine solche umfassende Neureglung gekommen sah.
Wow! And that in Staffelstein, where, due to the many traditions in the Banz monastery there (that is the location of the event), one would have expected to 'stick' to today's EEG. But you didn't - the more than 400 people who have been active in the solar industry for many decades are further ahead than many here in political Berlin. This is very encouraging for a broad, systematic reorientation as the next step in the EEG & Co evolution.
I was hardly at home when I had a tantrum that keeps coming up after two days. As is known, the worst government of a capital in Europe, i.e. the Berlin Senate, spoke out in 2018 against the use of photovoltaics on new school buildings - that is not economical!
This is not a joke, and it shows that Greens in the government, at least in Berlin, obviously do not have the right information or the will to implement their core concerns. Where these core concerns in Berlin are somewhere else than in climate protection, but the left and the SPD do nothing better. Obviously, everyone needs a compulsion to finally use the most economical, flexible and nature-friendly source of all renewables.
And so I think that in addition to the real political small adjustments when reaching the point from which costs are no longer called a stumbling block, a greater demand must and can come: A solar priority law in all areas - basically the obligation within a certain Time to use solar without ifs and buts, of course with support, where it is still needed. With the necessary quantities to first achieve the EU targets and then the 100% renewable target together with the feasible quantities from wind energy. Here in Germany - and, not as some dream in science - elsewhere. What do you mean? What should it look like? And don't say yes: more remuneration. Because that doesn't help against monument authorities, against incapable local or federal governments or downstream authorities and concerns. You can see that in the wind at the moment: it has never been promoted as much as it is today, and yet expansion is paralyzing. Which has nothing to do with the tenders at all, but with the increasingly tough opposition to the expansion - which pulls out all the stops - climate change or not.
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