News Digest Item
14 Nov 2016

“Green electricity companies must fear for their priority rights”

Spiegel Online

Germany might have to discontinue a central instrument of the Energiewende in light of EU Commission plans to remove priority dispatch for renewable electricity, writes Stefan Schultz for Spiegel Online. In countries where renewables facilities produce a share of at least 15 percent of total power generation, grid priority is to be removed completely, according to a regulation draft, seen by Spiegel Online. Exceptions to this rule are possible, but only if other EU member states agree. The German government said it would try to avoid such a reform. “We will massively campaign for renewables priority in Brussels,” state secretary in the federal economy ministry Rainer Baake told Spiegel Online.

Read the article in German here.

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