This post is part of a series discussing a new position paper by German Environment Minister Altmaier and Economy Minister Rösler on reducing cost of the feed-in tariff system.
One of the proposals in the position paper is including installations that produce electricity for self-consumption with over 2 MW capacity in the base of surcharge payments.
That proposal actually may become law, since it is supported also by the opposition Green party. The SPD answer to the proposals doesn’t mention the point at all.
I just looked at how self consumption is handled in the German ecotax law, and found out that it is done exactly as the new proposal for the feed-in tariff surcharge. Article 9 Paragraph 1 Number 3 of the Electricity Tax Law exempts all self consumption installations with less than 2 MW completely from the 2.05 cents euro per kWh ecotax.
That may be the reason why the new proposal also has this threshold. If so, there will be still plenty of room to install smaller solar rooftop systems and stay outside of the surcharge system, which means the permanent advantage for the next big wave of solar in Germany (systems for self consumption) will stay largely intact.
[...] Electricity Self-Consumption and German Ecotax [...]
[...] Electricity Self-Consumption and German Ecotax [...]
[...] As pointed out before, the rising surcharges actually help with that. Electricity generated for self consumption is not part of the surcharge base right now. And even the new proposals of changing that will only affect installations over 2 MW capacity, as with the existing ecotax, where 2 MW is also the threshold. [...]
[...] less reductions for industry was one proposal that was supported by SPD and Greens as well. Getting self-consumption of systems over 2 MW capacity in the feed-in tariff surcharge system was another proposal the opposition parties [...]
[...] reductions for industry was one proposal that was supported by SPD and Greens as well. Getting self-consumption of systems over 2 MW capacity in the feed-in tariff surcharge system was another proposal the opposition parties [...]