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The other energy-related news of last week from Germany was the agreement of both houses of parliament on the revision of the feed-in law for photovoltaics, after upper house stopped it. The compromise reduced the one-off cut and eliminated the new unpaid 10% own-use rule for plants below 40 kW, while adding a new cap of 52 GW installed, when feed-in rates would run out and only feed-in priority would remain. However, with 28 GW on-line at present, 52 GW wouldn't be reached before the first future revision under the next federal government.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sat Jun 30th, 2012 at 03:54:35 AM EST
A little train blogging from the article linked in the diary:

Last coal marks end of Saarland mining - The Local

The last ten wagons of around 1,000 tonnes of coal trundled out of the Duhamel shaft, marking the end of a 250-year history of mining in the region.

Mine director Friedrich Breinig spoke of a, "cesura of an epochal time."

"There is hardly a family on the Saar River which never had anyone working in a mine," he said according to the Saarbrücker Zeitung newspaper.



*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sat Jun 30th, 2012 at 03:56:26 AM EST
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