Increasing the use of renewable energies in electricity production from 50 to 65% and implementing standards to ensure that all electricity produced and imported is emission-free by 2050: this is the programme on renewable energies that is going to be voted on in Berlin in the coming days.
The amendment, called the Erneuerbare-energien-gesetz (EEG), calls for Germany to reach 100 gigawatts of installed capacity for photovoltaics, 71 gigawatts for onshore wind power and 20 gigawatts for offshore wind power. Not everyone is happy with the figures allocated, the German Renewable Energy Federation would like, for example, at least twice as many. However, this is a first step, and will be decisive in the coming weeks.
The idea behind the bill is first of all to limit or reduce the constraints governing the development of German renewable energies. Then it will be important to auction off some of the planned gigawatts (16.7 GW onshore wind, 10.7 GW solar energy), perhaps even offering German municipalities a financial share of the proceeds for certain projects such as, for example, the development of wind farms.
