Green Party head calls for immediate launch of auctions to bolster domestic wind-turbine producers

Green Party chairman Robert Habeck has warned that Germany risks haemorrhaging wind-turbine manufacturers, just as it lost its manufacturers of solar panels, dpa reports in an article carried by Die Welt. “We have promoted the technology for many years and made it cheap. The entire world is building on that now,” he said, adding that this puts pressure on German manufacturers. To bolster domestic production, Habeck called on the government to hold promised special auctions for onshore and offshore wind immediately.

Read the article in German here.

For background, read the articles Minister promises stability for troubled German wind power sector and Wind industry calls for special auctions amid expansion slowdown and the dossiers Onshore wind power in Germany and Offshore wind power in Germany.