Federal Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen (CDU) wants an extra solar feed-in tariff cut to become effective on 1 April 2012, Reuters reported after a meeting of the parliamentary party leaders of the ruling CDU/CSU and FDP coalition on Wednesday.
A meeting of the Central Eastern European Electricity Forum (CEEE Forum) at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) yesterday dealt with the cooperation between transmission system operators regarding the implementation of the necessary measures to reach an internal EU electricity market by 2014, impediments for the electricity trade and also unscheduled loop flows in the Central Eastern European Region, BMWi reported.
The state government of Rhineland-Palatinate in a first reading approved an update of the State Development Programme (LEP IV) for the Expansion of Renewable Energy. The programme intends to increase the share of renewable energy sources to 100% by 2030. Wind power shall play a key role. Thus a number of LEP IV amendments aim at facilitating in particular wind power expansion.
The Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) is preparing a new ordinance regulating demand side management and allowing network operators to shed large loads to avoid grid overload, the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports.
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Initial information after a meeting of Federal Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen with representatives of the solar industry suggests that the 2011 solar boom might lead to monthly or at least quarterly solar feed-in tariff cuts but not result in a higher reduction than the maximum reduction of 24%.
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The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) published a new guideline on the promotion of micro combined heat and power plants (micro CHP) with an installed capacity of up to 20 kW.
He wanted to maintain the feed-in tariff promotion scheme under the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG), but discuss further cuts of solar feed-in tariffs with industry, Federal Minister of the Environment Norbert Röttgen (CDU) said at an annual energy industry conference in Berlin. His comments came as a reaction to calls by his colleague Economics Minister Philipp Rösler for a system change due to surging costs following the strong expansion in particular of PV installations in Germany in 2011.
Clearingstelle EEG (EEG Clearing Agency), which serves interested parties with regard to the interpretation and disputes relating to the EEG, has started a consultation in a new advice procedure (Hinweisverfahren) concerning PV systems that are installed within a distance of up to 110 metres to motorways and railways.
Yesterday the new Working Group for the Acceleration of the Grid Connection of Offshore Wind Farms convened for the first time, the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technolgy reported. Last Friday Federal Minister for Economics and Technology, Philipp Rösler, had invited stakeholders to discuss the current situation with regard to the connection of offshore wind parks to the grids and suggested to form a working group.
Despite the economic upturn Germany is on track regarding its Kyoto Protocol obligations. Greenhouse gas emissions in 2010 were 25% below the 1990 levels (Kyoto Protocol reference year), corresponding to a decline of more than 295 million tons of CO2 per year, the Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMU) and the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) informed in a joint press release.
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