Hammer number from the chancellor! Olaf Scholz (64, SPD) wants to plant at least 10,000 new wind turbines (previously 28,000) in the country by 2030! He promised that in BILD am SONNTAG.
And his Economics Minister Robert Habeck (53, Greens) paves the way for this: grinds the protection of species and citizen participation by emergency decree.
But in the traffic light there is a headwind!
The FDP considers the wind plans to be one-sided, half-baked and expensive. Bundestag Vice Wolfgang Kubicki (70, FDP) to BILD: Anyone who massively whips through additional wind turbines, “but has no storage, does not solve a problem, it makes the existing ones worse”.
Kubicki: “The amount of electricity that doesn’t fit through the grid or has to be given away abroad will only increase.”
FDP energy expert Michael Kruse (39) warns that Habeck “only makes renewable electricity more expensive”. According to Kruse, “hundreds of millions of euros would already have to be spent on ghost electricity” that either doesn’t fit through the grid, isn’t needed at the moment, or has to be sold abroad. Kruse: “In the future there will be a lot more.” Without storage and network expansion, new wind turbines are “useless”.
The “green spiral of price increases” is already costing electricity customers billions a year. Trend: “Increasing dramatically.”