Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy reform in decades”

Re:Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy ref... by Sol- on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @10:50AM (#30932616)

I think the last 2-3 years it has somewhat stagnated (for example [1]), driven by conservative politicians fishing for votes with NIMBY policies (while at the same time increasing dependence on Russian imports). Hopefully the new government can pick it back up, though.

[1] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany-build-no-new-of...

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Re:Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy ref... by locallost on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @03:37PM (#30936547)

I don't know of it was NIMBYism, but a few years ago the relatively simple feed in tariff system was replaced by a kind of a bidding system designed to allow new capacity addition to the most efficient producer. But by design they tried to limit the amount of new capacity added. Honestly I don't know all the details, but it's not very far fetched that there was a fair bit of politics involved, and protection of interests of a lot of non renewable energy producers.

Some details here https://m.dw.com/en/german-cabinet-puts-brakes-on-clean-ener...

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Re:Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy ref... by namibj on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @09:07PM (#30939454)

A big NIMBY-issue is Bavaria (and others) famously blocking addition of above-ground north/south transmission capacity, causing expensive buried cables across farmlands and forests.

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Re:Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy ref... by Wohlf on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @03:32PM (#30936505)

Even without politics it would have slowed in the last 2 years due to shortages.

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