Article continues...BRUSSELS, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Germany and Spain have warned the European Commission that an ambitious plan to boost the use of renewable energy sources, due to be unveiled next week, could be counter-productive and wreck existing successful schemes.
In a letter obtained by Reuters, ministers from Berlin and Madrid objected to a draft proposal that would encourage companies to trade renewable energy produced from sources such as solar, wind and hydro-electric power as well as biomass.
Whether such a system were mandatory or voluntary, it would endanger and undermine existing systems in Europe that guarantee prices and access to power grids for renewable energy enterprises such as wind farms, they said.
"This will put a very successful development of renewables at risk, which is not acceptable to our governments," the letter to Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs said.
Governments, not companies, must retain control of renewable energy policy since they were responsible for meeting binding targets intended to fight climate change, the ministers said.
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