Overview
- The industrial electricity price will be capped at €0.05 per kWh for energy‑intensive firms from 2026 to 2028, with talks with the European Commission largely concluded and costs estimated at €3–5 billion from the Climate and Transformation Fund.
- The government will tender 8 gigawatts of gas‑fired capacity in 2026 to be operational by 2031 to backstop a grid with more renewables.
- A new Deutschlandfonds will channel public seed money via KfW to mobilize private capital for areas such as energy infrastructure, dual‑use industries and tech start‑ups, with funding size and instruments still to be specified.
- The air‑ticket tax will be cut on July 1, 2026, a move the chancellor put at roughly €350 million, to bolster the competitiveness of Germany’s aviation sector.
- No agreement was reached on the EU combustion‑engine phaseout or the pensions package, as 18 members of the Union’s Junge Gruppe threaten to withhold votes in a Bundestag where the coalition’s majority is narrow, while economists from the advisory council, DIW and IfW criticize the measures as temporary stopgaps.