Germany wants to fight the climate crisis and its heavy dependence on fossil fuel imports by speeding up the rollout of renewables with a massive overhaul of key energy legislation.
In the “biggest energy policy reform in decades,” the coalition of Social Democrats (SPD), Greens and Free Democrats (FDP) proposes to lift the rollout of wind and solar power “to a completely new level” in a draft law amounting to more than 500 pages.
It aims to free up new land for green power production, speed up permit procedures, and massively increase wind and solar additions to achieve a nearly 100-percent renewable power supply by 2035.
Lovely.
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Lovely – now if only the rest of Europe could follow the example – this war would be over much sooner.
Again, not a single word on how to balance the demand when there is no wind nor sun (leaving a huge demand gap in the dead of winter)
I guess they’ll continue razing a few more villages for the lignite, and spew out some more CO2.
But hey the German electorate are happy about it, so why bother having a global and systemic approach?
Dear German redditors, just please put pressure on politicians to manufacture this somewhere within EU not buying it from another lunatic driven regimeland.
Really we should trigger massive transformation for us all.
After decades with a conservative coal-lobby party its not that difficult tbh
Actually that’s only the so called “Easter package”. There will be a “Summer package” later with more reforms which is also supposed to cement the rule that every state has to use 2% of its space for wind energy.
Didn’t their big push into solar more or less fail because the sun doesn’t shine much in Germany? I love renewables but you can’t just put them anywhere and have them work.
Does Germany have wind? If not, they need to be pushing nuclear.
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Germany wants to fight the climate crisis and its heavy dependence on fossil fuel imports by speeding up the rollout of renewables with a massive overhaul of key energy legislation.
In the “biggest energy policy reform in decades,” the coalition of Social Democrats (SPD), Greens and Free Democrats (FDP) proposes to lift the rollout of wind and solar power “to a completely new level” in a draft law amounting to more than 500 pages.
It aims to free up new land for green power production, speed up permit procedures, and massively increase wind and solar additions to achieve a nearly 100-percent renewable power supply by 2035.
Lovely.
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Lovely – now if only the rest of Europe could follow the example – this war would be over much sooner.
Again, not a single word on how to balance the demand when there is no wind nor sun (leaving a huge demand gap in the dead of winter)
I guess they’ll continue razing a few more villages for the lignite, and spew out some more CO2.
But hey the German electorate are happy about it, so why bother having a global and systemic approach?
Dear German redditors, just please put pressure on politicians to manufacture this somewhere within EU not buying it from another lunatic driven regimeland.
Really we should trigger massive transformation for us all.
After decades with a conservative coal-lobby party its not that difficult tbh
Actually that’s only the so called “Easter package”. There will be a “Summer package” later with more reforms which is also supposed to cement the rule that every state has to use 2% of its space for wind energy.
Didn’t their big push into solar more or less fail because the sun doesn’t shine much in Germany? I love renewables but you can’t just put them anywhere and have them work.
Does Germany have wind? If not, they need to be pushing nuclear.
The same party who slowed the construction of berlins wind turbines (Pankow/bruch) wants to put them in your face [while pretending to care about the environment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBwWtm2vvD8&ab_channel=extra3)