Germany will exempt "green" industry from payments for "green" electricity.
The German Federal Ministry of Economics intends to exempt "green" hydrogen producers who use electricity from renewable energy sources in their production cycle from paying a surcharge to support "green" energy producers.
This is reported by S&P Global, citing the law firm Pinsent Masons.
It is expected that this norm will be enshrined in the current reform of the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG 2021). The corresponding provision is also contained in the National Hydrogen Strategy, approved by the German government as part of the transition to a carbon-free, climate-neutral economy by 2050.
The new EEG 2021 law is in the final stage of adoption and is expected to come into force early next year. Recently, hearings on the relevant resolution of the Federal Government were held in the Bundestag, and it is currently under consideration by the Committee on Economic Development.
According to the explanatory note of the German Ministry of Economy, the "green" surcharge in the electricity tariff is reduced to zero only for those plants that produce "green" hydrogen and will be launched by January 2030. The goal of the innovation is to prevent the outflow of hydrogen production capacities outside Germany.
The surcharge to the electricity tariff in Germany for payments to RES producers in 2019 was 6.41 euro cents per kWh. In 2020, its size is between 6.5 and 6.7 euro cents.
It should be recalled that earlier, French Minister of Ecology Barbara Pompili announced the French government's intention to retrospectively cut tariffs for solar and wind power plants built in 2006-2010 to reduce current payments to their owners.
As Pompili explained, this initiative of the French government is due to the fact that the owners of solar and wind power plants receive superprofits.
The tariff reduction will affect about 800 large projects, including about 150 projects of the state-owned company Electricitede France SA. France currently pays the owners of these projects 750 million euros per year and plans to save 400 million euros per year, or 4 billion euros by 2030, by reducing tariffs from previous years.
It should be recalled that Germany also exempts metal product exporters from additional payments for the "green" electricity tariff. This is due to the fact that metallurgists need to compete in foreign markets with other manufacturers who have lower energy costs.
As Ukrainian News reported, earlier the European Commission stated that in the 2nd quarter, the price of electricity in Ukraine was higher than in Europe.
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