Wind lobby says German onshore capacity rose in 2022 but still far from targets
Germany’s onshore wind power capacity rose by 25% in 2022 from a year earlier but was still too low to achieve the government’s expansion targets, wind power lobby BWE said on Wednesday.
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Decades of government support for the development of wind energy has resulted in lower costs and a rapidly growing share of electricity generated by wind turbines. Wind in 2019 accounted for 7.3 percent of electrical generation, surpassing for the first time hydropower at 7.0 percent.