German clean power groups have criticised Germany’s climate package legislation for showing too little ambition on renewable energy to meet the 65% goal by 2030.
Renewable energy federation BEE president Simone Peter said: “The climate package needs to be improved in a number of ways. What is now on the table is not enough to reach the renewables expansion targets and the climate protection goals.”
BEE said sector coupling is a key element of clean energy supply, but remains excluded from the climate package.
It re-iterated industry calls to expand targets for offshore wind and remove barriers to onshore wind development, in particular, a new distance rule on the siting of turbines.
BEE said the distance rule was “not economically, ecologically nor industrially acceptable”.
The chair of the executive board of another industry group BDEW, Kerstin Andreae, called for federal and state governments to make improvements to the climate policy.
She also criticised the distance rule.
“It is of decisive importance that the coalition does not stifle the expansion of wind energy on land by excessive minimum distance regulations, but takes effective measures for the consistent expansion of renewable energies,” Andreae said.
She added that, according to BDEW calculations, between 2.9GW and 4.3GW of onshore wind needs to be added each year to meet the 2030 renewables target.
“We are miles away from that,” she said.