“Climate protection requires renewables expansion – wind power is a pillar”

International efforts in the framework of the G20 to limit the effects of climate change will have to rely on wind power as a pillar of low-carbon energy generation, the German Wind Energy Association (BWE) says in a press release. “Auctions for wind and solar power prove that renewables have become absolutely competitive,” BWE president Hermann Albers says. “The cost debate of the past therefore has to become a debate of opportunities,” he argues. The BWE criticises the coalition agreement in North Rhine-Westphalia, in which the smaller partner Liberal Democrats (FDP) demands slowing down wind power expansion in the state. Germany was “a technology leader” in wind power, which is why limiting wind power expansion at home “threatens the position of German companies in one of the world’s largest future markets", the BWE says.

Read the press release in German here.

For background, see the CLEW factsheet German onshore wind power – business, output and perspectives.