Germany Plans Development of 10 GW of Wind Farms a Year

Germany has published a document titled “Easter Package” on over 500 pages, which sets even more ambitious goals for green transition. The German minister of finance, Christian Lindner, described green energy as “freedom energies”, as reported on the website of the association OIE Srbija (RES Serbia).

The package envisages an amendment to the German Renewable Energy Sources Act, which should enable share of RES in Germany’s electricity production to jump from the originally planned 42% to 80% in 2030, with the prospect of Germany producing 100% of RES electricity in 2035.

To achieve this goal, the focus is on wind energy. From 2025, the quota volume for wind farm auctions will be 12 GW per year, with a bilateral premium (CfD) model to achieve annual growth in the construction of more than 10 GW of wind farms per year onshore so that Germany has 115 GW of installed onshore wind capacity in 2030.

Additional measures include increasing network capacity, simplifying and speeding up licensing, and raising administrative capacity.

German Ministry of Finance

Easter Package document

green transition goals

Christian Lindner

green energy as freedom energy

German Renewable Energy Sources Act

production of electrical energy from renewable energy sources

wind energy

quota volume for wind farm auctions

bilateral premium model

CfD

construction of wind farms

increase of network capacities

simplification and acceleration of licensing

raising administrative capacity