German FDP opposes solar incentive cuts
REUTERS - Germany's Free Democrats, junior coalition partners in Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right government, are opposed to proposals by the Environment Ministry to cut solar power incentives, an FDP lawmaker said Tuesday.
Michael Kauch, an environment policy expert in the FDP, told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung proposed cuts by Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen were too great and said the proposed cuts would harm the German solar power sector.
"We can't take an axe to it," Kauch said, according to an advance of a text to appear in Wednesday's edition of the paper. He said it would be wrong to cut the incentives by 15 percent as quickly as in April, as Roettgen wants.
