Solar power in Germany
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Solar power accounted for an estimated 10.7% electricity in Germany in 2022, up from 1.9% in 2010 and less than 0.1% in 2000.
Krughütte Solar Park
Lieberose Photovoltaic Park
Solar panels on a church
The Renewable Energy Sources Act or EEG is a series of German laws that originally provided a feed-in tariff (FIT) scheme to encourage the generation of renewable electricity. The EEG 2014 specified the transition to an auction system for most technologies which has been finished with the current version EEG 2017.
Hermann Scheer (2008), who together with Hans-Josef Fell, helped develop the original EEG legislation in 1999