German state’s environment minister says taxpayer money should be used to fund renewables
Frankfurter Rundschau / klimaretter.info
Baden Württemberg’s Green environment minister Franz Untersteller has suggested partly replacing the renewable surcharge with taxpayers’ money. The high costs of early solar development shortly after the year 2000 should be financed separately by a fund, Untersteller says in an interview in Frankfurter Rundschau. “We still carry a rucksack of old costs from the early days of the Renewable Energy Law (EEG), paid for primarily by private households and small companies.” He adds that the fund would cut the surcharge by around two thirds, bolstering public acceptance of the energy transition.
Find the interview in German here.
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