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26 April 2021
Germany’s governing coalition has agreed higher renewable expansion goals for next year but failed to set longer-term targets for the years up to 2030.
Parliamentarians from the Social Democrats and the conservative CDU–CSU union decided to increase solar PV capacities foreseen for auctions in 2022 three-fold, from 1.9 gigawatts (GW) to 6 GW.
The tender volume for onshore wind capacity will be raised from 2.9 GW to 4 GW, energy minister Peter Altmaier announced at a press conference last Thursday. Altmaier called it a “brave” decision, which he said had been difficult to reach by the coalition partners.
Altmaier said it was a sensible decision to give renewables a short-term boost and leave the rest to the next government that will be formed after the general elections in autumn 2021.
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Krischer told the
Heilbronn Voice, saying Tesla names what has long been bothering many others in connection with the energy and transport turnaround in Germany: Fifteen years of CDU-led federal governments have led to climate protection projects all too often being stuck in bureaucratic and unclear procedures. This slows down the transformation that we needed to achieve the climate goals, especially with the expansion of renewable energies or the turnaround in transport.