{"id":9768,"date":"2025-11-25T14:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T13:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonne-sammeln.de\/?p=9768"},"modified":"2025-12-09T16:53:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T15:53:50","slug":"finanzielle-beteiligung-an-solarparks-im-stresstest-neues-gutachten-schaut-auf-die-landesgesetze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonne-sammeln.de\/en\/finanzielle-beteiligung-an-solarparks-im-stresstest-neues-gutachten-schaut-auf-die-landesgesetze\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial participation in solar parks under stress test: New report looks at state laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/stiftung-umweltenergierecht.de\/die-finanzielle-teilhabe-von-gemeinden-und-einwohnern-an-der-wertschoepfung-erneuerbarer-energien\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Environmental Energy Law Foundation<\/a><\/strong> recently published a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/stiftung-umweltenergierecht.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Stiftung_Umweltenergierecht_Wuestudien_43_Finanzielle-Teilhabe.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Expert opinion<\/a><\/strong> with regard to the <strong>financial participation of municipalities in solar parks <\/strong>and wind power plants at federal state level. The report comes to the conclusion that financial participation is <strong>important for the acceptance<\/strong>z, but the current <strong>\"Patchwork\" of state laws jeopardises economic efficiency,<\/strong> the <strong>Speed <\/strong>and the <strong>Fairness<\/strong> in the expansion of wind and solar energy in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What the federal and state governments have regulated so far<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzer.de\/6_EEG_2023.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a7 6 EEG <\/a><\/strong>only one <strong>Voluntary framework for payments to local authorities<\/strong> (e.g. for wind farms and ground-mounted PV installations) in order to avoid constitutional risks. Binding obligations towards municipalities and citizens are created primarily at state level, based on a <strong>Opening clause in the EEG<\/strong> and a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de\/SharedDocs\/Entscheidungen\/DE\/2022\/03\/rs20220323_1bvr118717.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Judgement of the Federal Constitutional Court<\/a><\/strong>which generally permits such models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Heterogeneous state laws make an overview difficult<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Several countries<\/strong> (including Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Brandenburg, NRW, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Saarland) have now <strong>Own participation laws with different models and levels<\/strong> introduced. Depending on the federal state, the instruments range from <strong>fixed payments to municipalities<\/strong> about <strong>subsidised citizen participation<\/strong> up to <strong>Obligations to participate<\/strong> also for ground-mounted PV systems - <strong>without standardised upper limits <\/strong>or clear definitions of the beneficiary groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One <strong>Overview of the individual state participation laws<\/strong> you will find <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sonne-sammeln.de\/en\/kommunen\/beteiligung-auf-laenderebene\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here on SonneSammeln<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The critical points from the perspective of the experts:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Economic efficiency:<\/strong> High or cumulative participation obligations can make projects so expensive - especially in the tendering system - that they are no longer competitive, while construction can continue in other countries with lower requirements.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Legal and planning uncertainty:<\/strong> Different regulations and unclear terms increase the legal burden for project developers and local authorities and discourage smaller players in particular.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Unclear effect<\/strong>The report emphasises that more money does not automatically mean more acceptance and that financial participation without dialogue, fair planning and local participation can easily be perceived as \"hush money\".<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What the authors recommend<\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead of ever new and stricter national rules, the study argues in favour of<strong> Clearer guard rails in the EEG<\/strong>. So that participation <strong>not a hidden special levy <\/strong>they recommend permissible forms of participation, upper limits on the load per kWh and clearly defined favoured groups. In their view, the aim should be <strong>Legally compliant, streamlined and better coordinated nationwide participation<\/strong> The aim is to be a system that strengthens acceptance without slowing down the expansion of wind and solar energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-align-center wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/stiftung-umweltenergierecht.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Stiftung_Umweltenergierecht_Wuestudien_43_Finanzielle-Teilhabe.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">To the SUER report<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Die Stiftung Umweltenergierecht hat j\u00fcngst ein Gutachten hinsichtlich der finanziellen Teilhabe von Gemeinden an Solarparks und Windkraftanlagen auf Bundeslandebene ver\u00f6ffentlicht. Das Gutachten kommt zum Schluss: Finanzielle Beteiligung ist wichtig f\u00fcr die Akzeptanz, aber der aktuelle \u201eFlickenteppich\u201c an Landesgesetzen gef\u00e4hrdet die Wirtschaftlichkeit, das Tempo und die Fairness beim Ausbau von Wind- und Solarenergie in Deutschland. Was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,214,7],"tags":[106,171,115,276,76],"class_list":["post-9768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-kommunalbeteiligung","category-kommune","tag-akzeptanz","tag-buergerbeteiligung","tag-gutachten","tag-kommune","tag-pachteinnahmen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonne-sammeln.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonne-sammeln.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonne-sammeln.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonne-sammeln.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonne-sammeln.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9768"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sonne-sammeln.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9805,"href":"https:\/\/sonne-sammeln.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768\/revisions\/9805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonne-sammeln.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonne-sammeln.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonne-sammeln.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonne-sammeln.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}