“Tenant electricity-nonsense”
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
The tenant electricity draft law introduced by Germany’s economy ministry (BMWi) is an “utterly wrong” policy approach that turns the principle of “competition instead of allocation” upside down, Andreas Mihm writes in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Paying tenants a premium for buying home-generated solar power ultimately constituted “special support for the pv industry”, Mihm says. And since tenants who bought power from their roofs no longer had to pay fees for the public grid, “these costs will have to be split between fewer users”. The draft law therefore was “an outright erosion of solidarity” which parliament should reject, Mihm argues.
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