News Digest Item
12 Jul 2016

“Tenants receive solar power from their own roof”

bizz energy

One of the last minute changes to the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) reform could boost local use of solar power, with profound consequences for the German energy market, reports Manuel Berkel in bizz energy. Power that tenants use from a PV array installed on the roof of their house will be partly exempt from the green energy surcharge in the future. But the impact of this change is still highly uncertain as many details are yet to be worked out, according to Berkel.  

Read the article in German here.

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