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骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 hydropower sector is up in arms over the federal government鈥檚 plan to stop the subsidisation of small hydroelectric power plants due to nature conservation concerns, newspaper Tageszeitung (taz) . The government this week is planning to amend the country鈥檚 Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act (EEG), which aims to accelerate the expansion of renewable energy sources but which would also cancel subsidies for small hydroelectric power plants with capacities of up to 500 kilowatts. If approved, there will be no more new plants and funding would end for old plants. "We couldn't believe our own eyes," said Hans-Peter Lang, president of the Federation of German Hydroelectric Power Plants BDW. The move would create 鈥渁 two-class society in renewable energy production鈥�, he added. The industry is particularly upset by the "arrogance" with which the government claims that the energy yield of small hydropower plants is insignificant for climate protection, taz notes. Hydropower generates around 3 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year, a third of the amount of a nuclear power plant. That is enough CO2-free energy for around 1 million households, the BDW calculates. Hydropower delivers "constant and reliable electricity, even when it's dark and calm" and is therefore "indispensable for grid and system stability", it adds.

Lang blasted German economy minister Robert Habeck in particular: "While Habeck travels to authoritarian states to bring more and more expensive oil and gas to Germany and at the same time demands 'Every kilowatt-hour counts!', his ministry abolishes hydropower." In a issued last week, the BDW said the 鈥渙verriding public interest in renewable energies must also apply to hydropower鈥� and demanded that the exclusion of hydroelectric power plants below 500 kW in the EEG be revised. Environmental groups last year objected to increased support for small hydropower plants, saying they posed a threat to river ecosystems.