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Less climate change with new energy?

The act on the promotion of renewable energies the German energy transition allows, worldwide it is copied. Now should there be a Reform. Experts warn that Germany’s climate targets off.

The energy transition in the electricity sector has been underway since the year 2000 in Germany, extremely dynamic, and the share of renewables rose from at the time, seven to 33 per cent (2015). Was the Boom of electricity from Wind, sun and biomass, particularly by the act on the promotion of the renewable energies act (EEG). It guarantees to all plant operators, the acceptance of the renewable electricity over a period of 20 years at a fixed price.

Citizens, farmers and a lot of new entrepreneurs received as a security for their investments and drove the energy turnaround in Germany is progressing. The EEG is especially important for environmental experts as a model of success and was in over 65 countries imitated.

Government agreed upper limit for renewable energies

In Germany it is since years to the EEG hotly debated, it is at the heart of the energy transition. Some want to do less in the pace of change in the electricity sector, and criticize the costs of the rebuilding. Above all, environmentalists want a very fast Wind and Solarausbau and so the electricity from klimäschädlicher coal and risky nuclear power to replace.

The CDU and the SPD agreed in 2013 in the coalition agreement, a slowing down of the until then very dynamic alternative energy and agreed on Limits for the expansion of renewable energies in the electricity sector. The agreement provides that until 2025 the share of renewable energies in the electricity mix to a maximum of 45 percent rise. To this limit not to exceed, would need to the pace of the Energieumbaus now even more throttle, the annual installed capacity of Wind and solar power would be approximately halved.

New energy law with the brake and the competition

The dynamics of the energy transition in the electricity sector to limit, the Ministry for economy and energy now, the design for a new EEG with a new conveyor system: Previously, each citizens and entrepreneurs to approved locations Wind and solar installation and receives the generated electricity a fixed remuneration.

In future, there will be a competition with tenders for large-scale systems. Only applicants with the best Offers receive a contract for the production of electricity from sun and Wind. “The policy specifies the quantity and the market determines the price”, said economic and energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) the System. He referred to the proposed model as a cost-effective System.

Widespread Criticism

The planned EEG Reform, there is a lot of criticism by energy experts. The energy transition would thus continue to be massively stifled. “Stalled are already solar, and biomass, there follows, with this approach, the stalling of wind energy on Land,” says, for example, Claudia Kemfert from the German Institute for economic research (DIW). This is not in the sense of the energy transition and is not advisable, neither for the industry and jobs for the climate. “In addition, the conversion to the tender are not necessarily cost effective,” said Kemfert compared to the DW.

See something similar to this also environmentalists: “Gabriel’s EEG Reform means less climate protection,” says Tobias Riedel of Greenpeace. At the UN climate change conference in Paris had Germany for more climate protection obligation, “the proposed Reform is a fatal Signal”.

The sector of renewable energies in a yet unpublished study, calculate how high the share of renewable energies would have to be to make Germany his Klimaverpflichtungen follow. Therefore must by 2025, the share of renewables in its energy mix to 60 percent and could not be at 45 percent to be limited.

The alarm on the EEG plans to show, but also many States. Heads of government and Ministers concerned for their industries and demanded in a joint appeal to the Federal government the abolition of the ceiling for the Expansion of renewable energies. “Wind power is for the North Germans of countries of great importance,” stresses Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Prime Minister Erwin Sellering (SPD). “We are the leader in renewable energy, thousands of new jobs here are in the last few years.”

Stunted Development or climate protection?

The planned EEG Reform is also of trade unions, Kirchenverbänden, energy consumers and energy suppliers krisisiert, the largest German energy suppliers E. ON and RWE were to Ask me not to.

For Joachim Pfeiffer, Energy policy spokesman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, is the raising of the Targets is currently “not up for debate”. To the set climate goals in Germany and by 2020, twelve per cent CO2 saving, he sees the “Royal road to the increase of energy efficiency”, also in the transport sector, there would be enormous Potential.

Be Fraktionskollege, Klimaschutzexperte Andreas Jung, wants to get to the topic currently unable to Express the mood of the group is to learn, whether there are “half-baked”.

The discussion in the German government on the limitation of renewable energies refers to energy expert Kemfert as “Gespensterdebatte”. But with this concept will be the costs will not reduce, but rather “planned economy run – with the aim of Abwürgens of the energy transition.”

State Secretary Jochen Flasbarth negotiated for Germany at the climate change conference in Paris

Not happy about the planned EEG also shows Jochen Flasbarth, state Secretary in the Ministry of the environment and chief negotiator for Germany at the climate negotiations in Paris. “When we take our targets seriously, then that means the Kohleausstieg and a faster Expansion of renewable energies significantly above what is currently planned.”

For Flasbarth is the set Ausbaudeckel “the result of a hysterical discussion about electricity prices at the end of the last legislative period.” He does not believe that this coalition agreement is now cancelled. He sees the debate but come, “at the latest at the next elections“. And then “we all have arguments”, the cover for the Expansion of renewable energies to pick it up.

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