SUMMARY:
Despite all the talk
about the need
to transition over
to renewable
"green" energies,
Germany’s progress
— especially in
wind energy —
has ground to a halt.
The expansion of wind energy
the government scaling back
subsidies, and enacting stricter
permitting laws.
Citizens are also bitterly
fighting the installation
of 200-meter tall turbines,
even doing so in court.
Wind power in Germany
has been met with
increasingly fierce protests
from citizens, especially from
"traditional environmentalists".
Wind turbines are deforesting
and industrializing large swaths
of Germany’s landscape.
Traditional environmentalists
oppose environmental destruction
and industrialization of the landscape.
Leading German energy expert
Jens Koeppen, of Angela Merkel’s
CDU party, is calling for
“drastic” permitting rules
for installing wind turbines.
The proposed rules would stop
many proposed wind projects.
There’s a wave of lawsuits
challenging wind park proposals
all across the country.
Germany’s wind energy expansion
has ground to a halt as a result,
angering climate alarmists,
and "Big Wind" lobbyists.
German citizens are very concerned
about the health impacts from infrasound
generated by wind turbines, which experts
claim can have an impact 10 kilometers away.
Note:
My prior articles
on the subject of
wind turbine
infrasound noise
are here:
PART 1
https://elonionbloggle.blogspot.com/2019/06/wind-power-is-loser-intermittent.html
PART 2
https://elonionbloggle.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-wind-turbine-infrasound-noise.html
PART 1
https://elonionbloggle.blogspot.com/2019/06/wind-power-is-loser-intermittent.html
PART 2
https://elonionbloggle.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-wind-turbine-infrasound-noise.html
Other Germans point to wind energy’s
volatile power supply, high cost,
(non-infrasound) noise pollution,
general inefficiency and the
great danger to birds and bats.
A study found
if Germany had spent
the same amount of money
on nuclear power,
that it actually spent
on renewable energy,
it would now have
a total nuclear capacity
equal to more than
its current peak
electricity demand.
Meanwhile, Germany
still gets about 50%
of electric power from coal.
But thanks to
very large investments
in expensive renewables,
German electricity costs
about twice as much as
French electricity, which is
80% from nuclear power.
Wind power has never
lived up to the hype.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS:
One CDU-politician is calling
for a nationwide wind turbine
setback rule, based on the one
used in the southern state
of Bavaria.
The Bavarian 10H rule
has effectively stopped
new wind projects
It forbids the installation
of any wind turbine
within a distance
less than 10 times
the height of the turbine,
from any residential area.
So a 200-meter tall turbine
must be built
over 2 kilometers
from a residential area.
In Bavaria, that rule has
literally ended the installation
of new wind turbines.
Politicians are divided.
-- The conservatives in the CDU
want adequate setbacks
for wind parks
built near communities.
-- The socialists in the SPD
want to relax the rules
to encourage more
wind park installation
near communities.
The German UBA
Office of Environment
warns that even a
setback distance
of 1,000 meters
could reduce the areas
available for wind turbines
by up to 50%, in some places.
“As in April 2019,
only nine
new wind turbines
went into operation
nationwide in May,”
IWR reported.
“The year 2019
threatens to be
a disaster
for the
wind industry
in Germany.
... In the first
five months of 2019,
only around 60 new
onshore wind turbines
went into operation
nationwide."
"This is the result of an
IWR evaluation of data
from the market master
data register of the
Federal Network Agency
(BNetzA).”
I think this is the IWR link,
but it's in German, so it could
be cookie recipes,
for all I know:
Green energy activist
Professor
Volker Quaschning
called the collapse
a “catastrophe”,
tweeting that the
expansion of wind power
“collapsed completely”.
He added that
“it will be impossible
to meet the CO2
reduction targets”,
and that 40,000 jobs
in the wind industry
are “on the brink”.
REFERENCE:
From the Max Planck Institute
study on infrasound from wind turbines,
and the impact on the neo-cortex: