CDU/CSU bashing current gov't for stuff they funked up over 16 years in 3, 2, 1...
@cweickhmann fortunately this horrible bidding concept has been successfully bypassed as electricity prices skyroketed and so called "direct marketing" and p.p.a's yield way better profits.
Yet its high stakes as the Invest is risky if energy prices would drop again.
Which Id heavily doubt they'll ever do though. Anything around 60€/mwh is dirt cheap nowadays.
@h0g3R
The article is not about the price mechanism for electricity. It's about building new wind power plants.
@cweickhmann dunno if I may have gotten the translation of "Ausschreibung" wrong, which I highly doubt. But the article is about how this type of access to the eeg is crippling the build up of new capacities.
@cweickhmann the alternative path to still build profitable new power plants I mentioned is not part of the article. But its sure part of the whole topic.
If you dont want the "discussion" to expand beyond whats covered in the article thats fine, the entire subject of renewable energy transition is a bit more complex as to be successfully written up in a few sections.
@h0g3R Ausschreibung is a call for bids or tender offer. The process at hand (if I'm not mistaken) was introduced in the 2016/17 reform of the bill (EEG) and switched from fixed price feed-in tariff (Einspeisevergütung, i.e. a fixed price per kWh for eligible renewables) to a tender offer process. This was, at the time, highly criticised because it works okay for large parks (say offshore or large developments somewhere in the middle of nowhere) but it's a huge burden for the typical 3-10 site small development.
So, the key point is: Apparently, the process is to hard for most interested parties, so instead of building new sites, they simply don't.
The reason I framed this as the work of conservatives is that their central claim was that energy in Germany is too expensive because of the fixed price for renewables (which is simply not true, as price in general is strongly determined by the order merit process).
What I did not mention is that @spdbt and in particular ministers Zypries and Gabriel have their fair share in this mess as well. I'd still argue they did it on behalf of the conservatives though, as they initially introduced the EEG and the fixed price for renewables themselves back under Schröder in the early 2000s and I am not aware of a strong opposition against fixed price feed-in tariff (Einspeisevergütung) within the party.
@cweickhmann kudos for the honest mention on spd´s participation in the matter. Certainly not one of the bright spots in eeg´s history which the SPD still deserves a lot of credit for.
@h0g3R True. There have been different approaches and it's interesting to see this in the light of the relation to Russia now: Hermann Scheer for example seems almost greener than green and shaped a lot of very good policies (e.g. in Hessen 2003). And it's funny to see that e.g. Gabriel not only didn't really like the EEG and was very open to CDU/CSU's views but also really liked lignite (brown coal), cars and Russian gas. It's like you can see how energy transition, industry transition and geopolitics meet in one spot, and it's Hannover's SPD ^^
@cweickhmann Hermann Scheer <3
r.i.p.
One of the biggest figures in recent SPD history imho, just not at first sight.
*co-funked up
The only party not involved in the past 16 years were the Greens. I assume they'll be trialed and convicted instantly.