Overview

• Economy Minister Katherina Reiche has tasked the Energiewirtschaftliches Institut and BET Consulting with an initial monitoring draft due this week to assess policy realignment on affordability, cost efficiency and supply security.
• SPD energy spokesperson Nina Scheer formally challenged the brief for questioning all existing energy rules and warned it threatens planning and investment certainty under the coalition contract.
• A Germanwatch analysis by Tim Meyer found the monitoring mandate biases toward slowing renewable expansion and boosting fossil fuels while overlooking grid modernization and storage solutions.
• Germanwatch policy director Christoph Bals insisted that any scenarios not aligned with Germany’s 2045 climate neutrality goal must not inform policy decisions.
• Unpublished modeling from Epico and Aurora Energy Research shows that even with minimal demand growth Germany will need substantial annual renewable additions and that deploying half of the planned 20 GW of gas capacity alongside storage and flexibility measures could bridge supply gaps reliably.