Overview
- Federal Economics Minister Katherina Reiche is circulating an early reform plan that would cut support for small rooftop solar systems up to 25 kW and end compensation for new plants when grid overloads force curtailment.
- Top Bavarian leaders Klaus Holetschek, Hubert Aiwanger and SPD’s Florian von Brunn warn the plan would stall new investment in the state’s wind and solar projects and call the move a full brake on the energy transition.
- The core tool, a Redispatch reservation, would make projects in congested zones bear curtailment losses, and a new analysis by Enervis finds at least 90 districts would be hit with nearly all of Bavaria affected.
- Bavaria is pushing countermeasures with a Bundesrat-backed bid for a special 5,000 MW southern wind auction after recent federal tenders awarded only five Bavarian wind projects out of more than 400 nationwide.
- Grid constraints frame the fight as two delayed north–south lines are due by late 2026 and 2027 and constraint management cost more than €3 billion in 2025, while Bavaria generates about 60 TWh against roughly 80 TWh of demand.