Government to decide on special renewables auctions in October

After several hours of negotiations on diesel emissions and immigration, the federal government coalition also agreed that it would decide to implement special renewables auctions “to contribute to closing the gap in the 2020 climate target” in a cabinet meeting in October. A paper handed to journalists after the talks confirmed the coalition agreement from February 2018, in which Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) said they would implement additional auctions for 4 gigawatt (GW) of onshore wind power and 4 GW of solar power as well as “one offshore wind power contribution” in 2018 and 2019, “provided that the grid’s carrying capacity is sufficient”. The coalition also said it would raise the renewable power expansion goal to 65 percent by 2030, as stipulated in the February agreement, and adopt the expansion paths for each renewable technology.

Find the paper in German here.

For background, read the CLEW article Wind industry calls for special auctions amid expansion slowdown and the dossier The new German government and the energy transition.