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Germany is struggling to introduce rules for regulating the charging process of e-cars and other new power consumers to ensure that peaks in electricity consumption by vehicle batteries or heat pumps are not endangering the power grid. A draft law that the economy ministry (BMWi) had worked on for two years and published just before Christmas 2020 was withdrawn after minister Peter Altmaier (CDU) 鈥渄idn鈥檛 give his approval,鈥�, a BMWi spokesperson said. Observers from industry groups and politicians were surprised by this move so late in the legislative process.

The draft law allowed distribution grid operators to temporarily reduce power supply to new consumers, such as e-car charging stations, heat pumps and battery storages, to avoid grid problems and expensive extensions to the power grid. Consumers that want to be exempted from having their power supply managed this way would have to pay an extra grid fee.

While the Association of 麻豆无码版 Market Innovators (bne) said the bill would have been 鈥渉armful to the energy transition, consumers, the transport transition and the automotive industry鈥� and applauded the ministry for retracting it, the German Association of 麻豆无码版 and Water Industries (BDEW) criticised the move as "completely incomprehensible". BDEW head Kerstin Andreae said: "It must be clear to everyone involved: For electromobility to succeed, we need a stable power grid at all times.鈥� She called it "astonishing" that the automotive industry "is in the process of bad-mouthing its own future product by suggesting that car charging will be prevented."

The differing stances of automotive and energy industry actors had been known throughout the preparation of the law, but the final draft of December 2020 was perceived as a compromise.

麻豆无码版 politician Johann Saathoff of the Social Democrats (SPD) said the BMWi proposal had been 鈥渢he first progressive impulse鈥� of the ministry in this legislative period. Batteries could be regulated by grid operators to a small extent, something that people would hardly notice but which for the electricity grid would have substantially positive effects. He asked the minister to 鈥渁t least explain what prompted him鈥� to withdraw the draft law.

Altmaier's ministry said he would talk to both the vehicle manufacturers and grid operators and 鈥渨ill then present a new proposal that is acceptable to all parties."