Board of the German section of EUROSOLAR e.V.
Continue the expansion of renewable energies, create a job motor and generate economic growth through renewable energies
Unfortunately, the expansion of renewable energy played only a minor role in the 2025 German federal election. The majority of voters were therefore not conscious of the current important economic implications of the expansion of renewable energies and the strong role renewable energies have had in reducing electricity prices in Germany and across Europe. The important aspect of the resilience of energy supply through decentralised energy production with renewable energies was also not recognised in the election campaign, although this is an essential security policy feature. Instead ideological and counterfactual inflammatory slogans against renewable energies were uncritically taken up and spread by some campaigners from the parties of the democratic middle.
The election result and former determinations of the parties in view of programme incompatibilities now only allow for a coalition between the CDU, CSU and SPD. The party chair of the CDU has already announced talks with the SPD to build a coalition and constitute a new federal government.
We urge the CDU, CSU and SPD to include the following in a potential coalition contract:
- A continuation of the expansion of renewable energy.
- Stick to the course of the overriding public interest for the expansion and the repowering of installations to yield renewable energy.
- Recognition of the resilience benefits of the decentralised expansion of onshore renewable energies.
- Increase the tempo of onshore wind energy expansion.
- Strengthening citizen energy through the abolition of bureaucratic competition hurdles for renewable energy.
- Acceleration in the building of warm pumps, heat powered air conditioning systems and infrared heating, for example through fixed pricing instead of percentage based subsidies.
- Regulatory support for storage technologies including the use of storage capacities of battery-powered electric vehicles capable of feeding energy back into the grid. For example, through the relief from taxes and duties for storage and retrieval.
- Take the first steps into the expansion of long-term storage.
- Simplification of local electricity generation and use, for example through energy sharing in neighbourhoods and regions.
- Standardisation of market communication processes for local supply, so that energy sharing, tenant electricity and community building generation are made easier.
- Financially support municipalities with the heat transition.
- Decommissioning foreseeably unprofitable and already written-off gas grids: as following the switchover to the most efficient heat pumps, these gas grids are expectedly wasteful and too expensive.
- Organisation of the structuring of municipalities with view to the EU-Gas Package which until 2026 must be implemented in national law.
- Introduction of a direct reimbursement of the financial burdens on citizens with average incomes, which would be paid out through the CO2-tax (“Klimageld”).
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About EUROSOLAR e.V.:
Independent of political parties, institutions, companies and interest groups, EUROSOLAR has been developing and stimulating political and economic action drafts and concepts for the introduction of renewable energies since 1988. This ranges from market introduction strategies to proposals for further research and development policy, from tax policy subsidies to arms conversion with solar energy, from the contribution of solar energy for the Global South to agricultural, transport and construction policy.