Green energy producers of Belgium, what are your challenges? Help me out with my research report and fill out a 3min survey.

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1. Cba to fill in your docs but I don’t mind answering quickly – got experience with getting 2 windmills greenlit;

   Main challenge? Finding financial backers knowing it is an unsure investment on a subject with fast changing legislation and keeping these investments profitable is the main hurdle. We’re reaching the amount of volatiles at this point that when the weather variables are favorable, the price drops very fast – which is normal. Sun shines? All solar panels inject. Wind blows? Windmills turn. Market prices? Boop, straight into the ground. Worth investment? eh.. sorta. Sometimes. maybe.

   Even if you find backers for such a project, most often end up stuck at the second challenge. Submitting an application and finding proper affordable ground to place your investment. Depending on the energy type, a lot of government and controlling instances need to greenlit your project which is very often close to kafka because of the length of these processes.

   You need a favorable reply of the local government, which can be delayed for months if one person in the radius submits a formal complaint against the plans of building one. The Flemish government has to greenlit your project aswell if you want to be pulled into their project and get some additional funding.

   If the government was serious about this green energy project, they should pre-check and sell spots for companies to buy and build their mills on with the location bound conditions already stated in the contract, while concurrently having less legislation based on the whimsy of the current active political party.