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Germany To Dedicate 2% Of Its Land To Wind Power Development
Germany, despite its claim to be a renewable energy leader, is not currently on track to meet its 2030 climate and energy targets. This week, the nation’s new Green Minister for Economics and Climate, Robert Habeck, presented a bold new plan for expanding onshore and offshore wind power. If successful, the plan would add up to 10 gigawatts of new onshore wind capacity every year for the rest of the decade. To put that into perspective, Europe as a whole installed 11.8 gigawatts (GW) of onshore wind in 2020.
To promote the plan, Germany intends to increase the number of onshore wind auctions and streamline permitting procedures for onshore wind. In total, 2% of Germany’s land area will be set aside for wind energy generation. In addition to onshore wind, the German government also plans to increase its offshore wind target to 30 GW by 2030.
During a press conference, Habeck made it clear that wind energy, particularly onshore wind, will remain the most important source of electricity in Germany and is the key to further emission reductions, according to WindEurope. “The Energiewende is roaring again. Germany wants a huge expansion of onshore wind. And the Government fully understands that that requires faster permitting of new wind farms — and they intend to deliver this ASAP with a dedicated new ‘Onshore Wind Law’. Today’s announcements mark the comeback of German leadership on renewables – fantastisch!“ says WindEurope CEO Giles Dickson.
Habeck intends to remove restraints on onshore wind development caused by concerns about radar installations for civilian and military aviation. He estimates the government plan could free up 4 to 5 GW of new wind projects currently blocked by aviation radar, and an additional 4 GW currently blocked by the military.
Support for renewable energies will be paid from the state budget, reducing the burden on low income households and small businesses. The package is also said to define the energy transition as a ‘matter of public interest’ in order to prioritize wind energy projects over other forms of land use — an important precondition to streamlining the permit process and finding new sites for wind energy projects.
Germany announces massive renewables expansion
Up to 10 GW per year onshore wind between now and 2030
Setting aside 2% of the country’s land for windhttps://t.co/7FrXu9xaFk @WindEurope @USCleanPower @BrianVad @ProfStrachan @ChristianOnRE @CKemfert @HJFell @EWGnetwork #WWS
— Mark Z. Jacobson (@mzjacobson) January 13, 2022
The government proposal will make sure the expansion of onshore wind does not come at the expense of environmental and species protection. Currently legal appeals against wind energy permits, often filed on the basis of Germany’s Nature Protection Act, are a major stumbling block for new projects. Habeck says there needs to be a rebalancing of the competing interests, one that reduces the amount of delay created by endless lawsuits. This new plan will require shorter and less complex permitting for new wind farms.
The German Wind Energy Association has consistently stated that just 2% of German territory would be sufficient to build enough onshore wind to meet Germany’s renewables targets. During the press conference, Habeck stressed that restrictive distance rules between wind turbines and residential buildings would be de-emphasized in order to reach the new 2% target. Habeck’s plans received positive feedback from many groups in Germany. The German Renewables Association even issued a statement calling it the start of a “new era of German climate policy.”
Now the hard work of getting the proposed new law enacted begins. Germany has painted itself into a corner by closing many of its nuclear power plants early, before there were enough renewable energy resources to compensate. It needs to move boldly and quickly to remedy that situation. The new onshore wind law will go a long way toward satisfying that need.
12 Comments on "Germany To Dedicate 2% Of Its Land To Wind Power Development"
Duncan Idaho on Sat, 15th Jan 2022 1:41 pm
Some good news:
Trump is losing hundreds of voters a day to Covid — far more than the margins in the swing states.
https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/trump-backs-boosters-clearly-someone-did-the-math-for-him-153a2ff62718
Hello on Sat, 15th Jan 2022 2:44 pm
Everyday I’m amazed at how stupid libtards are. Is it really possible to be that stupid? Apparently yes, the US is living proof.
But then again the US has a lot of niggers, and as everybody knows but nobody dares to say, niggers are some sort of monkey. Not very smart.
But that doesn’t matter for the West. They import niggers and worship them, lowering themselves to nigger level.
That is truly amazing. Is there anything more stupid than the West? Importing niggers and other sludge, then worshipping them?
Biden’s hairplug on Sat, 15th Jan 2022 2:46 pm
That’s 10,000/year on 74 million Trump voters.
Commies like donkey idaho can’t calculate.
But then again, what can they?
Biden’s hairplug on Sat, 15th Jan 2022 3:05 pm
“That is truly amazing. Is there anything more stupid than the West? Importing niggers and other sludge, then worshipping them?“
That’s because you don’t understand who has the US and thereby the West in an iron grip. The Chinese are ckearly smarter:
https://vdare.com/posts/tablet-the-chinese-believe-that-the-jews-control-america
“Tablet: “The Chinese Believe That the Jews Control America.”“
It isn’t stupidity, it is murder.
Adi understood it.
Unlike you.
FamousDrScanlon on Sat, 15th Jan 2022 4:21 pm
Hello, the main reason they import all those niggers is because sluts like your mother, sisters, aunt’s and grandmothers love nigger cock. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn your father loves nigger cock too.
Given how niggers is just about the only topic you consistently comment on, I bet you are a nigger cock luving fagot too.
Where is it you are from again? Switzerland? A nation of cowardly Jew bankers. Bankers to all criminals really.
And the toughest guys in Switzerland dress up like fagot faeries and guard the pope.
Anyone who wears that shit has to be gay. Swiss faggots protecting pedophile papists.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Swiss-Guards
You better get ready because like I’ve been telling clog when the shit hits in Euro land, Canada is not going to rescue you again. You’ll have to do your own fighting.
All of hot and getting hotter by the day Africa is dreaming of the Swiss Alps as their #1 climate refugee destination.
It might work….for a year or 2, but y’all are fucked too. Of course the Africans don”t know that there is no escape from climate change. Part of that is my fault for encouraging them with lies that not only will the Swiss Alps be an escape from the deadly heat, but also Kind heart ed Swiss taxpayers such as yourself will gladly pay their rent & buy their food for them & their 9 kids – all they need do is make it to Switzerland.
https://www.myswissalps.com/aboutswitzerland/nature/environment/globalwarming
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57457384
Biden’s hairplug on Sat, 15th Jan 2022 5:44 pm
“You better get ready because like I’ve been telling clog when the shit hits in Euro land, Canada is not going to rescue you again. You’ll have to do your own fighting.“
You never rescued us. Weak-willed Canadian colonial resources of the British Empire, nothing more than cannon fodder really, were used by uncle schmull to rake in Europe.
But that is now going to be reversed. Canadians will be screaming to be rescued by their European Masters. Sneak preview of Canadians wetting their panties:
https://youtu.be/amApwFT49JQ
Duncan Idaho on Sat, 15th Jan 2022 6:17 pm
“Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.”
Stalin or Trump?
(Obviously Stalin was much smarter)
shock as elite supertard Carlos Ferrara MUZZ-19 himself with reckless abandon GOING TO SAINT PETERS on Sat, 15th Jan 2022 10:06 pm
thecovidworld
please feel at ease among friends
we’re all lovers of supremacist muzzies here
Cloggie on Mon, 17th Jan 2022 4:39 pm
An auction in Scotland has yielded into a whopping 25 GW of offshore wind power, with a large share floating wind:
https://www.offshorewind.biz/2022/01/17/breaking-scotland-awards-25-gw-in-scotwind-auction-more-than-half-for-floating-wind-farms/
The Scottish government can lean back, while pocketing 700 million and let commercial developers build 17 wind farms.
forbin on Tue, 18th Jan 2022 11:02 am
To put that into perspective, Europe as a whole installed 11.8 gigawatts (GW) of onshore wind in 2020.
thats because onshore delivers less than offshore .
Mind you Germany doesnt have a lot of offshore sited
with a load factor as high as just 0.22 ( offshore 0.42) then 10GW capacity will deliver on average over a year just 2.2GW of power. For weeks it will deliver very little indeed , at best possbily 6GW for a few hours.
And they’ll scrap reliable nuclear for that ?
Well Germany will feel the blackouts – then what?
FamousDrScanlon on Tue, 18th Jan 2022 12:54 pm
The other week I made a joke about rounding up anti-vaxxer-maskers and putting them in a concentration camp & jab jab jab them. Pump them full of Pharma they do not want.
So now, in some places, the joke looks to become reality.
Austria plans compulsory Covid vaccination for all
Austria is to become the first European country to make vaccinations against Covid 19 mandatory, and will go into its fourth nationwide lockdown for at least 10 days from Monday, the chancellor, Alexander Schallenberg, has announced.
The government said it was preparing the legal groundwork for a general vaccine mandate to come into effect from 1 February, with exemptions for those unable to receive a jab on medical grounds.
The age from which people will be required to be vaccinated has not yet been determined, the government said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/19/austria-plans-compulsory-covid-vaccination-for-all
Covid or no Covid the digital noose tightening that is happening to all of us this very moment and is far from finished was set in motion long ago and every time one of us hit the “I Agree” button only feed the beast.
They promised us a future like “The Jetsons” but instead we have a mix of 1984 & Brave New World. Almost no one read the Agreement before clicking I Agree – just give me my Digital Dopamine Drip & I’LL agree to anything. Keep the hits a’coming. Now ‘Skynet’ owns us & we are accomplices in building our digital prison. It could not exist otherwise. No single organization or nation could build the technosphere monster on it’s own. It was a human project whose purpose appears to be make humans irrelevant. Since we built it, it’s doom is built in too.
Biden’s hairplug on Tue, 18th Jan 2022 3:34 pm
@Forbin – Germany is currently at 50% renewable electricity, on a yearly basis:
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2021/06/29/less-green-electricity-in-germany-in-h1-2021/
New offshore parks are planned.
Germany has experienced far worse than a silly blackout.