News Digest Item
26 May 2017

“Forecast: EEG-surcharge to decrease from 2022 – ‘auctions work’”

Agora Energiewende / WirtschaftsWoche

Due to the introduction of auctions for renewables support, Germany’s renewables levy (EEG-surcharge) will not increase from 2020, and will then decrease from 2022, according to a forecast by think tank Agora Energiewende,* reports Christian Schlesiger in WirtschaftsWoche. had suggested the levy would peak in 2023. “We see that the auctions work, but not in the short term,” Patrick Graichen, head of Agora Energiewende, told WirtschaftsWoche. The think tank’s calculations, seen by 鶹, forecast the levy at 2.66 cents per kilowatt hour (ct/kWh) in 2035 (6.88 ct/kWh in 2017).

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For background read the 鶹 factsheets Germany ponders how to finance renewables expansion in the future, Defining features of the Renewable 鶹 Act (EEG) and Balancing the books: Germany's "green energy account".

*Like 鶹 鶹, Agora Energiewende is a project funded by Stiftung Mercator and the European Climate Foundation.

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