{"id":136701,"date":"2025-01-20T07:58:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T05:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/despite-afd-criticism-german-wind-energy-sees-record-year\/"},"modified":"2025-01-20T07:58:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T05:58:47","slug":"despite-afd-criticism-german-wind-energy-sees-record-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/despite-afd-criticism-german-wind-energy-sees-record-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite AfD criticism, German wind energy sees record year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136701\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>For far-right AfD co-leader Alice Weidel, renewable energy is unreliable and should make way for nuclear power. But Germany&#8217;s wind sector is on track to make significant gains. Germany is making major strides in wind energy expansionImage: Thomas Warnack\/dpa\/picture alliance. Germany&#8217;s leading source of electric power generation got a big boost in 2024, according to latest industry figures.<\/p>\n<p>Regulators approved more than 2,400 new onshore wind turbines with a total output of around 14 gigawatts, a record high, said a new report from the German Wind Energy Association and VDMA Power Systems, the association for power plant engineering. &#8221;This is a significant step in the right direction,&#8221; said Dennis Rendschmidt, VDMA&#8217;s managing director. He said the government must &#8221;maintain this momentum,&#8221; no matter the outcome of the February 23 federal election.<\/p>\n<p>But despite the positive figures, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has made vehement opposition to Germany&#8217;s energy policies \u2014 and wind in particular \u2014 a key part of its election campaign. At the AfD&#8217;s recent party congress, chancellor candidate Alice Weidel railed against &#8221;fluctuating&#8221; renewable energy, which she told German broadcaster ZDF didn&#8217;t work &#8221;when the wind doesn&#8217;t blow and the sun doesn&#8217;t shine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the congress, Weidel vowed to tear down all of Germany&#8217;s &#8221;windmills of shame.&#8221; She called for Germany to boost the use of planet-heating fossil fuels, including Russian gas, and bring back nuclear power as part of a &#8221;sustainable, serious energy mix&#8221; \u2014 a plan which most experts have said is unrealistic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;A return to nuclear power in Germany is not plausible or helpful, in terms of climate protection \u2014 nor would it be economical,&#8221; said Wolf-Peter Schill, an energy expert at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin, pointing out that Germany shut down its last three reactors nearly two years ago. &#8221;[The reactors] have already been dismantled to such an extent that they cannot simply be put back into operation.&#8221; Building new nuclear plants, he added, would take far too long to be any help in achieving climate goals.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/despite-afd-criticism-german-wind-energy-sees-record-year\/a-71325146\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/despite-afd-criticism-german-wind-energy-sees-record-year\/a-71325146\">DW<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/despite-afd-criticism-german-wind-energy-sees-record-year\/\">Despite AfD criticism, German wind energy sees record year<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[575,17633,1824],"class_list":["post-136701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-german-wind-energy","tag-record"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}