Demand for wind energy in Germany has risen in the past half year, engineering federation VDMA said Wednesday.
Demand for wind energy in
Germany
has
risen in the past half year, engineering federation VDMA said Wednesday.
According to a survey of manufacturers, 414 new wind turbines with a capacity
of 1,004 megawatts, were installed in
Germany
in
the first six months of 2012, an increase of around 26% on the year, VDMA said
in a joint statement with Bundesverband WindEnergie, or BWE.
By mid 2012, a total of 22,664 plants with a capacity of 10,016 megawatts were
installed in
Germany
, they
added.
Following the accidents in
Japan
's
Fukushima Daiichi reactors, the German government last year decided to
accelerate its planned nuclear exit and shut-down nearly half of the country's
reactors.
"The data shows that we're taking the right track with onshore wind
energy," BWE President Hermann Albers said.
"With wind energy as a key component, we can replace nuclear energy cost
efficiently," he added, noting however that a stable framework was needed
to do so.
Off-shore however, only nine new plants with a capacity of 45 megawatts went
on-line the past half year, which is less than forecast.
BWE noted that at the end of June, three off-shore wind parks were in the
process of being built, and until year-end, the construction of off-shore
projects with a total capacity of 2,000 megawatts, at a cost of 7.5 million
euros, will have begun.
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