New principle as the heart of the package

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In order to catch up, Habeck has announced adjustments to the regulatory framework in particular. Two large packages of articles of law are to be drawn up for this purpose. The first was presented in the draft bill in the spring and went through the cabinet around Easter - the so-called Easter package. In addition, a summer package has already been announced, which is then to go through the Bundestag and Bundesrat in the second half of the year.


The Easter package, which is over 500 pages long, changes several existing laws. This particularly affects the Offshore Wind Energy Act, the Energy Industry Act, the Federal Requirements Plan Act, the Grid Expansion Acceleration Act and the Renewable Energy Act. In the following, we will try to reduce the various changes to the essentials.

The new goal enshrined in the EEG is that 80 percent of electricity in Germany should come from renewable energies by 2030 and almost entirely by 2035. By comparison, in 2021 the share of renewable energies in gross ecuador consumer email list electricity consumption was 41 percent. In order to achieve the goal, the share of renewable energies must therefore double within just under a decade. In addition, electricity consumption will continue to rise in the coming years due to ongoing and targeted electrification, for example in the transport and heating sectors. The goal can therefore be described as ambitious in good conscience.

The construction of renewable energy plants has an impact on the immediate environment of the plants. Space is used up, noise emissions are generated, birds can die and many other influences are created. It is therefore always necessary to weigh up whether negative impacts on the environment are to be accepted for the construction or not. Against this background, the Easter package enshrines in the EEG the principle that the use of renewable energies is in the overriding public interest and serves public safety. This means that renewable energies will in future be given priority when weighing up protected interests. This means, for example, that the ban on offshore wind turbines in protected areas will no longer apply and will be replaced by a case-by-case assessment.