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initiative ourselves. Starting in the summer of 1999, four Bundestag
members worked out a draft bill: Dietmar Sch
¨
utz and I for the SPD
parliamentary group and Michaele Hustedt and Hans-Josef Fell for
the Green parliamentary group. This was how the draft Renewable
Energy Act (EEG) came about for which we were able to win over
our parliamentary groups in the autumn of 1999. The final vote on
the bill was scheduled for 25 February 2000. For PV—in addition
to the grants for the 100,000 Roofs Photovoltaic Programme—we
pencilled in a guaranteed price of 99 pfennigs per kilowatt hour.
Even this seemed Utopian to