Schlagwort: permitting rules

Europe gets 20% of its electricity from wind. But not enough new wind farms being built. Urgent action needed on permitting, grids and electrification

Windpark Winter

Wind energy was 20% of all the electricity consumed in Europe. But Europe is not building enough new wind farms.

Revised EU Renewables Directive set to speed up wind permitting

Wind- and Solarenergy

The Environmental Impact Assessments for repowering will be limited to new additional impacts of the projects making the procedure much faster

German government drops the idea of a nationwide 1000m distance rule

Instead the German States can now set their own rules up to a maximum distance of 1000m.

German onshore auction clears at €61.6/MWh

Winning prices in Germany’s third onshore wind auction this year rose to an average of €61.6/MWh. This is up from the previous auction in May, where the average price came in at €57.3/MWh.
This latest auction had only marginally more bids than the volumes on offer. The German Federal Network Agency, BNetzA, reported 91 bids for 709 MW combined capacity entered in competition for the 670 MW that was on offer.