Controversial cuts to the feed-in tariff incentives offered to German businesses and households that install solar panels could be introduced, after a parliamentary mediation committee recommended that the proposed cuts be watered down over the next three months.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government had proposed cuts of 16 per cent to the feed-in tariffs offered for rooftop solar panels. It also planned to reduce incentives for solar installations on open-field sites by 15 per cent, cut feed-in tariffs for so-called conversion sites by 11 per cent, and axe feed-in tariff payments for new solar sites on agricultural land altogether.
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