Overview
- The Economics Ministry’s “Netzpaket” introduces a Redispatch reservation that lets local grid companies refuse new wind and solar hookups in zones where more than 3% of annual generation is cut for grid reasons.
- An enervis study for Green Planet Energy says the rule would apply in 90 counties and could endanger about 32,000 megawatts of projects worth roughly €45 billion, with hotspots in parts of Bavaria, Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony and eastern states.
- The plan shifts curtailment risk from the system to new projects, which today are connected by right and compensated when the grid orders shutdowns to prevent overloads.
- The drafts also target rooftop solar by ending guaranteed feed-in payments from 2027 and forcing owners to sell their own power, which industry figures warn would choke household and community installations.
- Biogas groups say about 300 planned biomethane plants would stall under the energy-law changes and urge far larger annual tenders to build up 12,500 megawatts of flexible backup by 2030, while the Bundesrat’s separate wind-speedup measure still awaits EU state-aid approval and the coalition continues to negotiate the package.