Overview
- The Bundestag’s Economy Committee is reviewing the EEG‑novelle and Netzpaket with expert hearings in the first week of October as ministers press a package that would cap land pacht for wind at 3.5% for 20 years and shift small rooftop solar into direct marketing.
- Eighteen banks and major industry groups warned in an open letter that the pacht cap and reduced compensation for curtailed output will raise due‑diligence burdens and financing costs for projects, which could slow new builds.
- Schleswig‑Holstein’s Minister‑President Daniel Günther formally urged Chancellor Friedrich Merz to change the draft after saying the measures risk harming regional deployment and household participation in the energy transition.
- A commissioned legal opinion by former constitutional judge Udo di Fabio argues the pacht cap may breach property and contract rights, adding a likely constitutional route for landowners to challenge the law.
- Key next steps include a decisive Economy Committee meeting on 14 October, subsequent Bundestag and Bundesrat votes, and possible EU state‑aid checks that will determine whether the reforms or revised compromises take effect next year.