Legal basis:
EEG – Renewable Energy Law
Effective since:
02/2000, last amendment 01/2009
Feed-in tariff:
Open-space solar installations are currently being refunded 28,43 ct/kWh. Degression for open-space solar installations is at 10% in 2010 and 9% from 2011 on.
Source: dena, www.dena.de
As of 02/10
News:
Feed-in tariff will be reduced as of July 1st
23.02.2010:
Top representatives of the German governing coalition have agreed upon future feed-in tariffs and promotion of solar energy: From July 1st on payments for roof-top solar installations will decrease of 16 percent, open-space solar installations of 15 percent. Payments for open-space installations on conversion areas – for example former industrial or military areas – will only decrease of 11 percent.
Open-space solar installations on agricultural crop land will not be promoted any longer. Instead, open-space installations will be admitted on the marginal strips of highways and railroad tracks.
Source:Photon, www.photon.de
For more current news please also visit the homepage of BMU (Federal Ministry for the environment, nature conservation and nuclear safety)
