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11 Oct 2016

German state鈥檚 environment minister says taxpayer money should be used to fund renewables

Frankfurter Rundschau / klimaretter.info

Baden W眉rttemberg鈥檚 Green environment minister Franz Untersteller has suggested partly replacing the renewable surcharge with taxpayers鈥 money. The high costs of early solar development shortly after the year 2000 should be financed separately by a fund, Untersteller says in an interview in Frankfurter Rundschau. 鈥淲e still carry a rucksack of old costs from the early days of the Renewable 麻豆无码版 Law (EEG), paid for primarily by private households and small companies.鈥 He adds that the fund would cut the surcharge by ar