{"id":10808,"date":"2021-07-08T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haslinger-nagele.com\/?p=10808"},"modified":"2021-08-04T08:40:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T06:40:59","slug":"renewable-expansion-act-passed-in-the-national-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haslinger-nagele.com\/en\/renewable-expansion-act-passed-in-the-national-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewable Expansion Act passed in the National Council!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now it is fixed: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.360ee.at\/eine-million-daecher-der-entwurf-des-erneuerbaren-ausbau-gesetzes-eag\/\">The Renewable Expansion Act (&#8220;EAG&#8221;)<\/a><\/strong> has been passed in the National Council today! Just before the National Council&#8217;s summer break, the EAG was finalized and can now be implemented quickly. For the energy industry now the question arises: All&#8217;s well that ends well?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Changes to the government bill<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The legislative process was intensive: The statements of stakeholders from the energy industry, the coordination with the European Commission and, above all, the balancing of political interests to obtain the necessary two-thirds majority have led<a href=\"https:\/\/www.parlament.gv.at\/PAKT\/VHG\/XXVII\/I\/I_00733\/index.shtml#tab-Uebersicht\"> <strong>to some changes to the original legislative proposal<\/strong><\/a>. The actual impacts on the energy industry cannot yet be assessed, but the potential for renewable energy projects is enormous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are some relevant changes. More information will soon be available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.360ee.at\/\"><strong>www.360ee.at<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Implementation of <strong>eco-social criteria <\/strong>in \u00a7 6a EAG<\/li><li>Investment <strong>grants for hydropower plants<\/strong> (\u00a7 56a EAG)<\/li><li>Investment subsidies for <strong>biomass-based plants<\/strong> (Section 57a \u200b\u200bEAG)<\/li><li>&#8220;<strong>Cost capping<\/strong>&#8221; for households according to \u00a7 72a EAG<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Outlook<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although the EAG has now cleared the first hurdle, there is still a long way to go before the act comes into force in its entirety. First, the Federal Council has to pass a resolution, which is scheduled for July 14<sup>th<\/sup>. In addition, the European Commission still has to approve parts of the EAG package from a state aid point of view; this is expected to be done in the course of the next few weeks. After that, the way is finally clear for the energy transition!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you have any further questions on this topic, please do not hesitate to contact our experts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haslinger-nagele.com\/en\/team\/johannes-hartlieb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Johannes Hartlieb<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haslinger-nagele.com\/en\/team\/kaleb-kitzmueller\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kaleb Kitzm\u00fclle<\/a>r and Mario Laimgruber from our \u201c360\u00b0 Renewable Energy\u201d practice group, who will be happy to answer any further questions you may have on this topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Disclaimer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This article is for general information only and does not replace legal advice. Haslinger \/ Nagele Rechtsanw\u00e4lte GmbH assumes no liability for the content and correctness of this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now it is fixed: The Renewable Expansion Act (&#8220;EAG&#8221;) has been passed in the National Council today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[163,31],"class_list":["post-10808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-360-renewable-energy","category-news"],"acf":[],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haslinger-nagele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haslinger-nagele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haslinger-nagele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haslinger-nagele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haslinger-nagele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.haslinger-nagele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haslinger-nagele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haslinger-nagele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haslinger-nagele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}