Speaking in Brussels yesterday (8 July), European Energy Commissioner
Günther Oettinger said the EU would need a harmonised feed-in tariff to
boost investment in solar power and other renewable energies. His
comments came as the parliament in his native Germany was voting to
approve cuts to the national feed-in tariff.
The commissioner praised the German Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) for guaranteeing "a fair price" for renewable energy, urging Europe to adopt something similar.
"I think we need a European EEG," the German suggested.
The ground-breaking regulation, adopted a decade ago, made Germany the world's biggest solar market despite its northern location and paved the way for similar schemes to be applied elsewhere across Europe.
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