In a letter to the committee chair, Green MP Sandra Detzer requested that Reiche be invited to the next regular session on Wednesday. “This development deeply concerns us,” the letter states. Without a successor regulation passed and approved under state aid law by the end of the year, a massive slump in renewable energy expansion is looming.
The current state aid approval of the EEG by the EU Commission runs until the end of 2026. If no new regulation is in force by then, legally subsidized new installations could be commissioned but not yet funded, warns the German Association of Energy and Water Industries. Reiche herself had urged the cabinet to advance a reform by the summer break.
Green energy politician Michael Kellner accused Reiche of inaction: “Katherina Reiche’s refusal to work threatens billions in investments and thousands of jobs. The clock is ticking.” The current EEG expires at the end of the year, and the reform process has been overshadowed for months by massive personnel problems in the Economy Ministry.
Source: www.spiegel.de
