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The German parliament has approved the Solarpaket 1 measures to support the PV sector. The new legislation was adopted with 384 votes in favor, 79 against and 200 abstentions.
The law includes significant improvements for the C&I segment. In the future, such installations will be eligible for feed-in tariffs that will be €0.015 ($0.016) higher per kilowatt hour than current tariff levels.
It also becomes easier for people to be deployed PV balcony systems and start energy communities. In addition, the new law increases the limit for solar projects from 20 MW to 50 MW in tenders for large-scale installations.
The new provisions do not include a ‘resilience bonus’, which some governing coalition parties demanded to support domestic value chains. The proposed bonus consisted of an additional reward for developers of solar energy projects that would use PV components made in Europe.
Germany reached approximately 88.44 GW of installed PV capacity at the end of February. The country’s new solar additions reached 14.5 GW in 2023, 7.19 GW in 2022, 5.26 GW in 2021, 3.94 GW in 2019, 2.96 GW in 2018 and 1.75 GW in 2017 .
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