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ards of the Energy Saving Ordinance. As a result, the costs of the use requirement and its fulfilment
are incurred by the developer or owner of the new building. He has to bear any additional
costs arising from the obligation to use renewable energy or carry out substitute measures.
These are based directly on the differences in heat generation costs and may, depending
on the technology involved and its cost-effectiveness, be offset by saving due to reduced
purchases of fossil energy.
The second pillar of the Renewable Energies Heat Act is financial assistance. Today the Renewable
Energies Heat Act forms the legal framework for assistance under the market incentive
programme for renewable energy sources (MAP). The MAP has gradually been expanded
since 1999 and is the German government’s central instrument for the promotion of renewable
energy sources in the heat market. It thus encourages investment in the construction of
installations for generating heat from renewable energy sources.
The Renewable Energies Heat Act makes it clear that the federal authorities will provide
needs-appropriate support of up to 500 million EUR per year for the use of renewable energy
for heat generation in the years 2009 to 2012. These funds come partly from tax revenue,
and partly from the Federal Environment Ministry’s Climate Initiative which was launched in
2008. This initiative is funded by auctioning emission allowances. In this respect the financial
assistance provided in the heat sector is fundamentally different from the assistance in
the electricity sector under the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG), which levies a surcharge
from electricity consumers to finance the feed payments for electricity from renewables.
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Renewable Energy Sources in Figures
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