20 Jul 2017

Offshore wind industry: lower costs warrant lifting of expansion caps

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BWE / AGOW / German Offshore Wind Energy Foundation / VDMA Power Systems / WAB e.V.

Germany’s offshore wind industry calls on the next federal government to increase the expansion corridors for offshore wind to at least 20 gigawatt (GW) by 2030 (at the moment: 15 GW), and to 30 GW by 2035, according to a joint press release issued by several industry associations. The auction results in the first half of 2017 have shown the cost reduction potential, and costs were one of the main reasons for capping expansion with the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG). The first half of 2017 saw an additional 108 offshore wind turbines with a total capacity of 626 MW added to the German grid. Currently 1,055 turbines have a capacity of 4,749 MW in Germany.

Find the press release in German here.

For background read the CLEW article Operators to build offshore wind farms without support payments.

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