EnviTec Biogas: Market environment remains challenging in 2013

Lohne, Germany - The situation in the German biogas market was not satisfactory in the first quarter of 2013.

The reason was a lack of confidence in the legal fundamentals. Investors who decide to build a biogas plant today cannot be certain what the legal framework will look like when the plant is taken into operation a year later. This situation has paralysed the sector since mid-2012, although the German Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) is generally valid until 2015. Unfortunately, however, policy-makers have repeatedly questioned this validity publicly, and spontaneous ideas such as the

Source: IWR Online, 29 May 2013