Merkel Allies Call for Renewable Curbs as Wind Overwhelms Grid

Senior lawmakers from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling bloc called for limits on subsidies for renewable energy in Germany as output expanded faster than the electricity grid can absorb the additional flows.

Michael Fuchs, deputy chairman of the Christian Democrat party, joined fellow lawmakers in calling on the government to employ flexibility as early as this year in setting targets for clean energy growth, according to a three-page note dated Jan. 18 and sent to the chancellery. Power from wind jumped last year to give clean energy a 33 percent share of the electricity market compared with 27 percent in 2014.