Katherina Reiche: Don’t panic

February 27, 2026 by admin

The Federal Minister of Economics wants to cut funding for operators of private solar systems – and there is great outrage. Wrongfully. The only risk: psychology.

February 27, 2026, 7:53 p.m

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Katherina Reiche’s Ministry of Economic Affairs is causing a stir with half-finished draft laws. The 442-page draft of the EEG proposes to abolish subsidies for small solar systems. Reiche argues that the systems are profitable even without subsidies. But previous solar subsidies have been successful, but cost billions. The expansion boom is leading to overcapacity and network problems. Reiche wants to make solar systems “more beneficial to the system”, but the implementation poses risks for operators and jobs. Despite the idea of efficiency, Reiche should not lose sight of the citizen-oriented aspect of the energy transition.

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In the future, solar systems should behave in a more “system-serving” manner, in other words: less egotistical.
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The federal government’s open day is actually not until June. But from the Ministry of Economic Affairs Katherina Reiche (CDU), new half-finished and still confidential draft laws are constantly being made public. In order to immediately trigger outrage among green politicians, renewable energy lobbyists and some journalists.

The latest example is the 442-page draft for an update of the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG), a kind of basic law for the energy transition. Reiche now wants to implement what she has long since announced – cancel the subsidies for small solar systems on house roofs.

Katherina Reiche: Don’t panic

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