Reasonably budgeted? More like recently decreasingly subsidized.

Germany is making an investment towards a more diverse, ecologically sustainable energy market. That's expensive in the short run, simple as that. The four big players don't like it - and they particularly don't like that decades of a very controllable market are drawing to a close.

You should see the desperate advertisements they run, trying to appear "green" and reasonable, lately. Very entertaining.

Also - if you're going to talk deficit, don't forget that Germany had to pay a couple of extra bills since 2008.

Almost every country in the EU has deficit beyond the allowed regulations for a huge different number of reasons. Energy is a factor that is so small, if it even is one, that it can be safely ignored.

It doesn't. Since 2011 Germany is under the EU deficit limit.

Which is an artificial limit anyway.

The budget deficit this year is extremely low - around 0.9%.

Renewable energy bills are paid for by consumers in their eletricity bills, as was made clear in the article.