The Renewable Energy Expansion Act

The draft of the EAG contains numerous provisions relevant to state aid law and must therefore be approved by the European Commission before it can enter into force. The draft may be substantially amended before it will be submitted for parliamentary vote.

Cross-technology tenders for new plant capacities (i.e. all or several technologies are tendered together) are currently not foreseen in the EAG draft. The technology-specific tenders are limited to photovoltaics and biomass. Wind and hydropower as well as small-scale biomass plants and biogas are to be subsidised by means of an administrative