Annual Report 2010 - Verein der Kohlenimporteure eV

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According to information from BDEW, German
renewable electricity, i.e. approximately € 0.156/kWh.
The market value of EEG power amounts to about €4.5
billion, so direct subsidies totalled €8 billion in 2010.
The support of renewable energy sources is moving
away from start-up financing for new technologies
towards permanent subsidy by consumers. This
financing is increasing and is far in excess of the
subsidies for German hard coal mining.
In consequence, electricity tariffs increased for German
households as follows:
Averaged monthly electricity bill of a
three-person-household (3,500 KWh/a) in euro
37,60 33,80
Electricity Bill for Households
49,95 48,20
26,53 28,57
12,35
14,40
18,67
20,30
20,82 21,70 22,49 24,65
25,20
40,66 41,76
15,51 16,68
46,99
50,14 52,38 54,43 56,76 60,20 63,15 67,70 69,10
25,15 25,08 28,32 29,84 31,56 32,73 34,27 35,55 37,95 41,17 40,53
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Production, transport, distribution
Figure 28 Source: BDEW, status 01/2011
40% of the total support for renewable electricity
generation went to solar energy in 2010
Subsidies for solar energy – at unimaginably high
levels – were only half-heartedly reduced after much
reductions for many of the components used in solar
power generation, due to increased competition, mainly
from China. A “subsidy bubble” is still developing,
without making any major contribution to power supply
or reduction of CO 2 emissions. Even with less support,
at €0.29/kWh since the beginning of 2011, this kind of
power generation is still six times more expensive than
the traded price per kWh seen on the power exchange.
Solar power covered barely 2% of Germany’s total
electricity demand in 2010. However, it received
approximately €3.3 billion from the feed-in levy.
According to initial projections, 2010 was a record year
for new connections of photovoltaic installations.
Changes compared
with 1998
+ 38 %
+ 131%
+ 8%
Taxes, fees, costs
(Renewable energies act, cogeneration act, electricity tax,
licence fee, VAT)
A capacity of more than 18,000 MW could be reached
in 2011. The “solar debt” of citizens probably reaches
over €120 billion over the next twenty years, which
must be amortised via electricity bills. This sum is
similar in size to the cost of the measures to rescue the
banks or to stabilise the euro. As solar energy subsidies
are mainly used by well-off citizens, who can afford