Merkel’s Solar Cuts Face Rejig as German States Object

Germany’s plan to cut solar subsidies may see last-minute changes by a parliamentary committee as 16 states represented in the upper house and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government are deadlocked over the legislation.

Saxony-Anhalt wants the bill to be sent to an arbitration panel at the next upper house meeting on May 11, according to Reiner Haseloff, the state’s governor and a member of Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union. Baden-Wuerttemberg, Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg have demanded changes.