7月5日 - 德国国会议员提出3个月内减少太阳能发电补贴，并为7月9日议会投票表决通过削减清除了道路。
今日议会两院委员会批准了该提案，改变了德国政府计划削减太阳能发电入网补贴，屋顶设备系统减少16%，农场设备减少15%，原工业和军事用地减少11%。
在柏林举行的国会上议院声明表示，此次削减，政府旨在追溯至7月1日，直到9月30日止，每个类都将缩减3个百分点，到那时补贴削减将全面实现。
“这样到本周末前就可为太阳能电力补贴最终改革清除道路，”环境事务的自由民主党下院发言人托马斯表示，他是总理默克尔下议院联盟盟友。他在一份电子邮件声明中表示，这是一个“公正的妥协”，为太阳能产业提供了一个“软着陆”的机会。
代表德国的16个州政府的上议院成员6月4日将原条例草案送交审议小组。默克尔的联盟可以否决下议院。联邦议院将于7月8日就修正法案进行辩论并达成妥协。上议院定于7月9日进行投票表决。
德国东部抗议进一步缩减补贴。德国东部是许多国家太阳能产业基础中心。默克尔政府说，必须大幅削减补贴，因为太阳能面板的价格已经下降了49%多，导致了德国太阳能市场产能相对过剩。
July 5 (Bloomberg) -- German lawmakers proposed easing reductions in solar-power subsidies for three months and cleared the way for parliament to vote on the cuts by July 9.
The proposal, approved today by a committee of both houses of parliament, changes a government plan to trim subsidies for solar power fed into Germany’s electricity grid by 16 percent for rooftop equipment, 15 percent for farmland and 11 percent for spaces such as former industrial or military sites.
The reductions, which the government aims to introduce retroactively to July 1, would be scaled back by three percentage points for each category until Sept. 30, when the full cuts would kick in, according to a statement by parliament’s upper house, the Bundesrat, in Berlin.
“This clears the way for the final reform of solar-power subsidies before the end of this week,” said Thomas Kauch, environmental affairs spokesman in the lower house for the Free Democrats, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s junior coalition ally. It’s a “fair compromise” that offers a “softer landing” for the solar industry, he said in an e-mailed statement.
Upper-house members, who represent the 16 German state governments, sent the original bill to the reconciliation panel on June 4. Merkel’s coalition can reject the compromise in the lower house, or Bundestag, which will debate the amended bill on July 8. The upper house is scheduled to vote on July 9.
Resistance to the deeper subsidy cuts centers on eastern Germany, where much of the country’s solar industry is based. Merkel’s government says subsidies must be pared because solar- panel prices have fallen by as much as 40 percent, causing overcapacity on the German market.
