Online site wind energy proponent site, Energiezukunft.eu here presents a commentary telling why Germany is seeing ever-increasing resistance to wind energy projects and how the wind industry could be seeing the final nail in its coffin.
Behind the mounting resistance are hundreds of anti-wind farm citizens’ initiatives across the country, stricter rules for wind projects and powerful anti-wind bureaucrats now heading key government positions.
According to Energiezukunft.eu, (Energy Future.eu) the new German draft laws are also calling on wind farm operators “to participate in the costs of grid expansion,” a costly requirement that wind energy proponents say “could ruin the wind energy industry.”
“Actions in the Ministry of Economics show: This is being done deliberately.”
Wind running up against fierce citizens’ opposition
Once welcome with open arms by citizens in Europe, wind projects today are being met with fierce opposition as citizens have come to realize how wind parks horrendously blight the landscape, threaten endangered species, produce unhealthy infrasound and generate electricity only sporadically.
Actions speaking louder than words
While the German CDU/CSU/SPD grand coalition government openly preaches the virtues of changing over to green energies like wind and sun and that they are the future, their actions and proposals, in reality, tell us the opposite.
The German government indeed seems to be ending the free ride that wind energy has enjoyed for more than 2 decades.
Energiezukunft.eu reports that the planned grid expansion participation regulation “could stifle the construction of new wind turbines in overloaded power grids such as those in northern Germany” and “would lead to incalculable costs for wind farm operators.”
Onshore wind parks are looking less attractive than ever.
Anti-wind citizens groups now a formidable force
Once ridiculed and often ignored, citizens’ initiatives against wind projects now “have great influence up to the highest circles” of federal ministries, Energiezukunft.eu acknowledges.
Wind energy proponent Energiezukunft.eu attacks the citizen initiatives, claiming their arguments “are often put forward under the guise of environmental protection.”
Energiezukunft.eu then even claims that wind turbines, in fact, protect species and the environment: “In addition, there is climate change, which severely disrupts and destroys the environment of the animals. The expansion of wind power would bring positive benefits here.”
Anti-wind officials in key positions
Energiezukunft.eu points out there is another major obstacle that the wind industry is facing in the future: high-level, anti-wind energy officials appointed to key positions, such as Stephanie von Ahlefeldt, head of the “Energy Policy – Electricity and Networks” department.
Because Ahlefeldt is now sitting at the levers of control, “She knows exactly which levers to pull in order to make a difference, and she is pulling all the levers at the same time,” Energiezukunft.eu warns.
Bleak future for German wind energy, Bright future for conservationists
The mounting obstacles against wind energy from citizens initiatives, stricter regulations, and powerful anti-wind officials in key positions mean the future for wind energy development across Germany’s landscape looks bleaker than ever. This has real environmentalists celebrating.
Tens of thousands of wind jobs lost
The situation for the wind industry in Germany has been dismal for some two years. Energiezukunft.eu writes: “Several 10,000 jobs have already been lost in the wind energy sector” and “many thousands of more jobs are at risk as a result of the planned regulations.”
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Wind farms often have to be built further away from the customers than fossil fuel plants. This means expensive upgrades to the grid are necessary. Traditionally these upgrades have been paid for by fossil fuel power. It is about time that the wind industry not longer gets a free ride. If this ends their existence, then they are never viable.
Germany is the engine of European Union, and the EU is sucking wind these days. Negative interest rates, what’s that all about? Failure.
The Great Depression of the ’30’s started in Europe and spread to North America. Canadian Liberals and American Democrats are inviting another European virus here. We need a quarantine.
They say that some thousands of jobs will be lost in the wind industry but no mention of how many manufacturing jobs have been and will continue to be lost due to the ever increasing cost of electricity due to the wind boondoggle. The auto industry is being hit very hard.
Back in 2015 the Dept of the Interior granted a Eagle Take Permit to the Wind Power Companies a 30 year Eagle Take Permit the American Bird Conservancy sued and had the permit revoked and that was under Obama
Imagine some joker standing in a field every day blasting birds out of the sky .
He would be hauled off to jail but a wind turbine well no it’s so “green ”
But the real reason is not the massacre of millions of birds it’s the pocket book .
People are no longer happy getting robbed while governments pretend to set the earths temperature . Lets face it these things a blight on the landscape , killing birds and are not even producing reliable power .
Massive stupid rip off .
Tear down all those Bird and Bat maiming Wind Turbines and recycle them into sail boat for Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio