Kretschmann wants to speed up the expansion of wind power
Created: 04/25/2022, 20:59
Winfried Kretschmann, Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg.
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Baden-Württemberg's Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann is stepping up the pace even more than before in the expansion of wind power.
The period from planning to the construction of a wind farm must be reduced to two years, said the Green politician on Monday evening at a panel discussion in the "Stuttgarter Zeitung".
"We're just too slow.
If we don't get faster, the energy transition will fail due to time constraints," warned the head of government.
Stuttgart - So far, the realization of a wind farm takes about six to seven years.
Kretschmann had previously set the goal of at least halving the period.
The coalition partner CDU is even more ambitious and wants to ensure that wind farms can be realized within a year.
EnBW board member Georg Stamatelopoulos was less optimistic.
"It's realistic to say that we can halve that." It is conceivable to be able to put a wind farm into operation after three years, he said during the discussion.
The prime minister said the pressure to switch quickly to renewable energies had doubled again as a result of the Ukraine war.
"Every excuse is made to pass." Kretschmann hopes that the conditions for faster expansion will be in place by the summer.
He wanted "that it slips".
Even after ten years of green government, the south-west is still far behind in the expansion of wind power.
Three wind turbines were built in the first quarter, but 100 are needed a year, said Kretschmann.
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He also called on the European Union to accept the so-called southern quota for the expansion of wind energy in Germany.
The EU should not be there with a "internal market radicalism" and suppress any flexibility in the member states.
With the quota, the federal government wants to make the construction of new wind turbines more attractive again in the southern federal states.
dpa