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Germany will not get a price on carbon emissions during the current legislative period, new energy state secretary Andreas Feicht said at the annual new year鈥檚 reception of the renewables association BEE. While the current complex system of energy fees, taxes and surcharges is hindering innovations necessary to drive the energy transition forward, the government will not pass any legislation and will only study concepts and proposals, Feicht said to the audible disappointment of the around 1,000 managers from the renewables sector. Energy experts and many politicians consider sweeping changes like聽the introduction of a carbon price聽on emissions indispensable to advancing the energy transition, electrifying sectors such as heating and mobility, and improving the country鈥檚 lacklustre performance in reducing emissions. But while environment minister Svenja Schulze (SPD)听has been pushing聽for a carbon price, her counterpart in the economy and energy ministry, Peter Altmaier (CDU),听has dismissed the initiative, saying it was not in the governing coalition鈥檚 agreed agenda for Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 fourth term, which officially ends in the second half of 2021. The commission charged with devising an exit to coal-fired power generation also聽recommended 鈥渆xamining鈥�聽a general carbon price. State secretary Feicht,聽a former utilities manager聽who took over the post on 1 February after it was vacant for over half a year, said the commission鈥檚 paper contained many intelligent ideas and the ministry was now assessing carefully how to turn it into a consistent legal framework. Feicht also promised to explain the decisions in consultation with neighbouring countries, as they would be affected through their connections to the European energy market. 鈥淲e do not want to repeat the mistakes we made with the nuclear exit,鈥� Feicht said in reference to聽criticism聽from abroad that Germany had decided to acclereate its phase-out of nuclear power generation in 2011 without consulting its EU partners.