Source: rechargenews.com
The wind sector told the government of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to "stay course" to reach the country's renewables targets – still set by the predecessor administration – due to a continued gap between the actual expansion of wind installations and targets under the country's Renewable Energies Act (EEG).
Developers added 2.2GW in new onshore wind turbine capacity during the first half of 2025, figures compiled by Onshore Wind Energy Agency (Fachagentur Windenergie an Land) on behalf of the German wind energy federation (BWE) and wind operators' group VDMA Power Systems showed.
That was up from 1.3GW in the year-earlier period, and the highest installation figure since 2017. Net additions, subtracting decommissioned turbines, reached 1.9GW during the first half of this year, up from 929MW a year earlier.
