Another Considerable Rise of EEG Surcharge on the Horizon (Germany)

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4. Two answers

1) Who ultimately receives the money collected as a surcharge? The government collects it and then disburses it to those that are installing the renewable energy systems, correct?

Incorrect. The utilities collect it from the consumers of electricity and keep it to offset their own costs.

2) With your unrelenting criticism of the nation that is most successful at GHG reductions, you seem to be of the opinion that we should continue business as usual.

I'm actually of the opinion that you should return to reality to visit once in awhile.

Germany was the most successful at GHG reductions when they were expanding renewables and relying on existing nuclear power... and I had no "unrelenting criticism" of them at the time. Currently they are not the most successful at GHG reductions... in fact their power generation sector is only increasing their GHG emissions and they'll spend the next couple decades struggling to tread water (spending hundreds of billions of euros that could have gone to actual GHG reductions). That's when my criticism began.

Coincidentally, it's your plaudits that have come fast and furious as their GHG emissions (from generation) climb. and their economy suffers.