Featured in Burning ambition – 09-2012

The compromise

EEG amendment in Germany: It took a long time, but after the compromise agreed upon by the mediation committee, the German Parliament and Federal Council adopted a slightly improved draft law just before the summer break. pv magazine recaps the new regulations that retroactively entered into force as of April 1.

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Sandra Enkhardt

05 Sep 2012

In its second session at the end of June, the mediation committee between the German Parliament (Bundestag) and the Federal Council of Germany (Bundesrat) settled on a compromise for the amendment to the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) for the PV industry. The Bundestag approved the newly regulated solar subsidies already at noon of the …

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