PoliticalRepoPoliticalRepo

Germany · Law · Gesetzgebung

20/14246

Law amending the Renewable Energy Sources Act to make biogas plants more flexible and ensure follow-up funding

enactedGermany· German Bundestag· DE

Introduced

17 December 2024

Last action

—

Status

Verkündet

Sponsors

—

Subjects

Discovery layer

Source updated

16 December 2025

Official sourceDownload fileView documentsShare

Summary

Strengthening the incentives for the flexible operation of biogas plants and improving planning security for follow-up funding for existing plants: switching the funding to a certain number of operating hours or quarter hours of operation, increasing the flexibility surcharge to 100 euros per kWh of installed output, discontinuing funding even if prices are weakly positive, preferential surcharge of one Existing systems connected to the heat supply facility by the end of 2027, permanent deletion of the southern quota, increase in tender quantities, shortening of the period for converting existing systems from 5 years to 2 years and extension of follow-up funding to 12 years;<br /> Insertion of § 51b and changes to numerous §§ Renewable Energy Sources Act<br /> <br /> <strong>Recommendation of the committee: </strong>further increase the tender quantities for the years 2025 and 2026 to 1,300 and 1,126 megawatts, respectively, changing the deadline for converting existing systems from 2 years to 3.5 years, increasing the eligible operating quarter hours from 10,000 to 11,680, for biogas plants with an installed capacity of up to 350 kilowatts to 16,000; Clarification, linguistic alignment and simplifications;<br /> Insertion of § 51b and changes to numerous §§ Renewable Energy Act

Machine translation from German. The official text remains authoritative.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

5 official files

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.

Sources

PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.