Germany will step up its green energy transition

    The German government attaches great importance to the development of the green and clean energy industry and promulgated the "Renewable Energy Law" for the first time in 2000. Since then, the law has been revised and improved several times. Its core content is to provide policy incentives and financial subsidies to the Home Solar Generators renewable energy industry, such as setting a protection price for on-grid power, and providing long-term fixed subsidies to renewable energy companies. At present, Germany’s annual subsidy for renewable energy has exceeded 20 billion euros, which provides a strong guarantee for the development and utilization of renewable energy and promotes the rapid development of the low-carbon power industry in Germany. However, it also faces overcapacity of clean energy and power grids. Congestion and other issues.

    With the gradual maturity of the renewable energy market, the German government began to adjust its energy strategy again in 2017, fully introducing a bidding mechanism, subsidies are no longer determined by the government, but by the market bidding system to ensure higher market participation and promote Renewable energy is developing steadily.

    In order to achieve the EU's energy saving and emission reduction targets, Germany will also accelerate the phase-out of coal power capacity. On September 1 this year, the German government conducted the first "retirement bidding" to provide compensation for coal-fired power plants that were retired early. If coal-fired power plants that were put into operation before 1990 withdrew early, the amount of government compensation received in the next 10 years would exceed the income from continued operation. This means that a large amount of coal power capacity will exit the German market in the next few years.

    Rothmacher, an energy expert at the German Federal Agency for Foreign Trade and Investment, said that as he is optimistic about the future development prospects of the German renewable energy industry, more and more innovative green companies are pouring into Germany and setting up production bases.