Germany: wind power is not enough to achieve the 2030 green goals
Germany's onshore wind power installations increased in the first half of 2023 compared to the same period last year, but despite the momentum, capacity additions are still too low to meet government targets, the association said on Tuesday. of VDMA sector .
In the first half of this year, as many as 331 onshore wind turbines (WTG) with a cumulative capacity of 1,565 megawatts (MW) were installed in Germany, according to a report by Deutsche WindGuard on behalf of industry groups BWE and VDMA Power Systems.
The gross acquisitions of the first half of 2023 already amount to 65% of the integrations of the whole of 2022.
For 2023, the upper range of the associations' forecasts of 2.7-3.2 GW of onshore wind capacity installations is likely achievable, VDMA said.
Nonetheless, the addition of new capacity falls short of meeting the 2030 target of 115 GW of onshore wind capacity, the association added, the threshold deemed necessary to truly transition to
The BWE and VDMA associations noted that “even the significantly increasing number of approvals is still far from sufficient to support the expansion target of 10 GW per year from 2025”.
“The discrepancy between reality and goals is currently still too high and can only be reduced through a consistent and rapid implementation of the measures taken at the federal level,” the associations say.
Bureaucracy slows down new construction, while the increase in production capacity must have visibility on profitability. German states and local authorities must implement federal government measures to further accelerate the rollout of onshore wind, the associations noted.
Last week, Germany held a historic offshore wind tender, in which energy supermajors BP and TotalEnergies won all 7 GW of capacity on offer. BP secured the lease of two sites in the North Sea off the coast of Heligoland with a total generation potential of around four gigawatts, while TotalEnergies secured the other two sites.
Germany currently has 8.4 GW of operational offshore wind capacity, but evidently that is still not enough. At this point one wonders if it will ever be sufficient to achieve these objectives, even taking into account that consumption peaks may not correspond to production peaks. The wind does not blow on command, and accumulation costs a lot…
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