Our expertise in the field of energy and climate policy is continually being requested in hearings of the German Bundestag.
Among other things, we drafted an opinion on the Federal Government’s bill regarding the second law amending the Energy Tax and Electricity Tax Act for the Finance Committee (2017), an opinion on the financial relief regulations for the energy-intensive businesses (“Industrieprivileg”) and the regulation on electrical energy produced in own power stations (“Eigenstromprivileg”) in the draft of the EEG 2014 for the Committee on Economic and Energy Affairs and an opinion on the Federal Government’s bill on the Second Act amending the Act on the creation of a special assets “Energy and Climate Fund” (BTDrucksache 18/2443) for the Committee on Budgets in 2014.
Arepo, in cooperation with FÖS and IZES, analysed tax deficits resulting from tax reductions for electricity produced for own consumption and electricity transfer in spatial …
In 2012, the Federal Government submitted a draft of a Second Act amending the Energy Tax and Electricity Tax Act (“Spitzenausgleich”). Arepo drafted the opinion …
Concerning the electricity-tax items eco-tax, grid-tax, tax for renewable energies and ETS, there are certain exemptions or reductions for energy intensive industries. In …
Arepo, in cooperation with FÖS and IZES, analysed tax deficits resulting from tax reductions for electricity produced for own consumption and electricity transfer in spatial …
Under article 63 ff. of the “Besondere Ausgleichsregelung” (BesAR) – the special compensation rule of the EEG 2014 (renewable energy law 2014) – certain energy …
The authors of the study developed a reform plan including policy design options concerning exemptions from the renewable energy tax (EEG Umlage). Please note that …