So far all new providers could count on state support. They received a 13-year guaranteed feed-in tariff, which is above the market price for electricity. In the future new providers will not be able to have guarantees for state support, and the feed-in tariff is only secured for ten years - plus two further years with gradually reducing tariffs. The mechanism of the old renewables law entailed a substantial cost increase, since many more wind projects were submitted than expected.

The Green Party in Austria reacted sharply against the new law on renewable energy. This party believes Austria will not achieve its EU target of renewables supplying 78% of electricity by 2010. The reaction of the largest industry association in Austria was completely the opposite: the association believes the new law will make support on renewables more efficient. The renewables industry condemned the government for lowering the level of to a fifth of the present level.