“Late and expensive green power reform”

The first truly fundamental reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) was long overdue, writes Andreas Mihm in a commentary for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The law has long fulfilled its purpose of making green power competitive and has become too expensive, Mihm says. “But even after the reform, however laudable its aims, nothing will be good,” writes Mihm, arguing that special support for turbines in low-wind locations, as well as biogas, will push up costs. He says renewable lobby claims that the reforms will destroy the Energiewende are “nonsense” because so far, both green power development and have risen after every reform. “Why should it be different this time?”