The more details become known from the draft of the “immediate climate protection program 2022”, which was hastily cobbled together with the SPD, the more doubts the Union arouses about its anchoring in the market economy.
The planned nationwide solar obligation for new buildings and roof renovations is further evidence that the Union does not trust emissions trading as a competition-neutral, efficient price instrument for reducing CO2.
Instead of waiting for the greenhouse gas-saving steering effect of the first level of CO2 inflation that has just come into force - and to cushion any hardships from rising energy prices - the Union also wants to force solar roofs.
But as long as politics cannot legally mandate the sun to shine, solar systems are not sensible and profitable in every location.
In those federal states or municipalities that have already introduced compulsion, an exceptional bureaucracy is flourishing.
But it cannot prevent private money and public subsidies from being squandered here.
With such a climate protection policy, the Union is also calling into question its commitment to sound state finances.