The German government has held a wind summit with industry stakeholders to identify ways of encouraging investment
At the meeting Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection Robert Habeck said he wanted to push ahead with the expansion of wind power and remove hurdles.
The summit was attended by representatives of the federal states, the ministries of the Federal Government, the associations, the municipal umbrella associations and the trade unions.
The focus was on a wide range of possible measures to expand and accelerate the planning, approval and expansion of onshore wind energy.
The meeting builds on the first PV summit on 10 March 2023.
At the summit, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK) identified a number of fields of action and measures that will be discussed with stakeholders in the coming weeks.
This ranges from the better incentive effects of the EEG and better financing conditions for direct contracts between energy producers and electricity consumers to the further facilitation of repowering and the question of how wind areas can be made available for the supply of industry.
Habeck said: “Last year, we gave the go-ahead with a large number of packages of measures in planning, approval and funding law.
But it is clear that for more than a quadrupling of the current expansion, we really have to release all brakes and further remove obstacles to the expansion of wind energy.
“That is why we discussed priority fields of action today and are now looking forward to input from the stakeholders.”