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Energy state secretary Rainer Baake has quit after four years in charge of Germany鈥檚 flagship Energiewende policy at the Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi). Baake, a Green Party politician whose appointment by then economy minister Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) came as a surprise at the time, criticised the new government鈥檚 energy and climate plans in a resignation letter seen by the 威力彩玩法. The plans for the energy transition (Energiewende) in the new coalition agreement were a 鈥渂itter disappointment鈥�, Baake wrote to incoming energy and economy minister Peter Altmaier (CDU). The new government was 鈥渕issing out on the opportunity to thoroughly modernise Germany鈥檚 economy鈥�, Baake said, adding that forces who wanted to preserve old and "climate-damaging鈥� structures had apparently been stronger.
During his time in office, Baake oversaw the reform of the core Energiewende legislation, the renewable energy act EEG, which included the shift from feed-in tariffs to a tender system, a move heavily criticised by the renewable energy industry. Baake, who has been dubbed 鈥淢r. Energiewende鈥� by German media for his expertise and his key role in the country鈥檚 energy policy, also repeatedly locked horns with utilities and the coal miners' union. He proposed a 鈥�coal levy鈥� in order to cut emissions from coal power plants. Instead, some lignite plants were transferred to a paid 鈥�security standby鈥� reserve, before being closed down permanently.
Ever since Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to hand the energy ministry in the coalition government with the Social Democrats to her close ally Altmaier, Baake鈥檚 future at the ministry had been uncertain. Saxony鈥檚 state premier Michael Kretschmer (CDU) Baake鈥檚 resignation last week, saying that he was responsible for 鈥渋deologically charging up energy policy鈥�.