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"Talk to renewable-energy executives for long enough and almost everyone will
complain about the time it takes to get government permits to build their power
plants. Unless you’re operating in Germany these days.
“We’re quite pleased,” said Karsten Brüggemann, vice president of Nordex, which
manufactures wind turbines. Particularly since 2022, he said, Nordex has seen a
rapid rise in the number of turbines deployed and future wind farms permitted.
Germany has been among the countries hardest hit by Russia’s invasion of
Ukraine, which forced it to quickly wean itself off Russian gas. The urgency
translated into building more import facilities for liquefied natural gas, and
to speeding up renewable installations.
Solar and wind projects across Europe had at the time been stymied by
bureaucracy. The time it took to get permits had doubled since 2017. In
Germany, securing approvals for one 2022 project to erect three wind turbines
required 36,000 pages of documentation printed out and handed to the
authorities.
Since then, German red tape has been drastically reduced, according to
interviews with renewable-energy executives. In just over two years, the
country is now deploying more renewables than any other European peer. “We are
experiencing a significant increase in renewable electricity generation,” said
Fiete Wulff, a spokesperson for Germany’s Federal Network Agency, which is
responsible for regulating electricity and other markets.
How did that happen? The government attacked the problem in a systematic way
and anchored the solutions in legislation."
Via
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*** Xanni ***
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