Solar: minimum tariffs under threat in the event of an agreement with the EU
Keystone-SDA
An electricity agreement with the European Union would mean the abolition of minimum tariffs for many photovoltaic installations in Switzerland. This is according to a letter from the Federal Office of Energy to a parliamentarian, which Keystone-SDA news agency has obtained.
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Le Matin Dimanche and the Sonntagzeitung newspapers, which published the information, state that the abolition of the provision guaranteeing a minimum tariff would affect homeowners who feed electricity into the grid from their solar installations. This would correspond to around 250,000 homeowners, or almost 95% of all installations in the country.
According to the European Union (EU), these fixed minimum prices constitute a distortion of the market. Last year, as part of the revision of the Electricity Act, the Swiss electorate accepted this legal guarantee by almost 69%.
Translated from German by DeepL/jdp
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