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It also has crazy things like taxation on energy produced by your solar panels that you use yourself.
by xioxox 4y ago
It also has crazy things like taxation on energy produced by your solar panels that you use yourself.
- dathinab 4y agoIt has taxation on energy usage independent of source. Given that traditionally alternate sources where things like companies having their own small gas power plant or similar this isn't really crazy. (Some details you can skip: The law effectively was about preventing circumvention of taxes on wasting energy, preventing unhealthy fragmentation in the power grid, making stabilizing the power grid easier and helping/subventing electric companies which back then often where state owned, i.e. tax payer financed; The law somewhat made sense for this goals, in the past. But only in the past. Change in technology and the ecosystem make it IMHO sub-optimal today. Today we probably should push for interconnected micro-grids with some decentralized energy sources each.) Today the law is stuck in the past and should be changed IMHO. At least an exception for green decentralized energy and/or excluding (only) small producers should be done, maybe more. Thinking about it currently is the best political weather for it.