The German wind energy trade association has declared that new grid access reforms proposed by the German government are inadmissible under European Union law.
The Bundesverband WindEnergie (BWE) said in a release that it had commissioned lesal opinion from the German law firm Raue.
BWE President Bärbel Heidebroek said: “We warn against continuing down a path that is inadmissible under European law.
“The resulting uncertainties and potential legal disputes could slow down the entire value chain of the energy transition.”
German media has reported that the German economy ministry is planning to weaken priority access for renewable energy to the country’s grid.
“The federal government must provide a legislative impetus to better utilize existing network infrastructure and accelerate investments in digitalization and network expansion,” Heidebroek said.
“Network operators must not be left alone to deal with the problem of accumulated network connection requests by having the decision to prioritize these connections shifted onto them.”
“The network package offers no solution; instead, it creates legal uncertainty and bureaucracy,” the BWE president added.