What is the Germany model, and what is its lesson?
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Germany's biomethane boom ran on energy-crop - largely maize - incentives from 2009, then the EEG was reformed in 2014: bonuses cut, new biogas-power capped at 100 MW a year, and the energy-crop substrate bonus ended. In the first year after the new law only 150 new biogas plants were completed. The lesson is that energy-crop-heavy models carry policy and land risk as well as agronomic risk.
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- Clean Energy Wire; Ifri
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- Traceable to a named source.
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- Practitioner — Operating numbers, ranges and failure modes.
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