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20 Dec 2017

State aid: Commission approves renewables levy exemptions for certain self-suppliers of electricity in Germany

Cost & Prices Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016
European Commission / BMWi

The European Commission has endorsed German exemptions from the renewables levy (EEG surcharge) for all existing self-suppliers of electricity (i.e. those that entered into operation before August 2014), as well as for new self-suppliers using renewable sources, it said in a press release. However, the Commission said it was still in talks with the German government regarding levy exemptions for operators of new cogeneration plants (CHP). According to a press release issued by Rainer Baake, state secretary in the economy ministry, the approval confirmed Germany’s policy “with which we promote the energy transition and at the same time ensure the competitiveness of the German industry”.

Find the EU press release in English here, and the BMWi press release in German here.

For background, read the CLEW factsheets, Industrial power prices and the Energiewende and Combined heat and power- an Energiewende cornerstone?

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