By P Gosselin on 21. November 2020
Germany began installing wind turbines in earnest some 20 years ago. Now that their lifetime has been exceeded, many are being ripped down. But there’s a big problem about what to do with the leftover carbon and glass-fibre reinforced blades. A recent report on ZDF German public television explains that currently there’s no plan in […]
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By P Gosselin on 11. October 2020
Wind energy investment plummeted in the third quarter of this year in Germany, reports the online IWR here. “The nine-month figures now available make it clearer that this trend will continue in 2020,” writes the IWR. Issued construction licenses drop 70 percent in 3 years Installation of wind energy in Germany peaked in 2017 (see […]
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By P Gosselin on 15. September 2020
Hat-tip: Die kalte Sonne According to a new study, the expansion of offshore wind energy planned to date could lead to less electricity actually being produced at higher costs because, according to current planning, wind farms are taking the wind away from each other. The researchers from the Technical University of Denmark in Roskilde and […]
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By P Gosselin on 9. September 2020
The green dream, with all its scenic beauty and nature conservation, has arrived in northern Germany. But now that green dream faces more obstacles. All is not so wunderbar when it comes to Germany’s wind power outlook. Germany’s Renewable Energy Sources Act, passed in 2000, was intended to ensure the generation of “green” electricity. Operators […]
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By P Gosselin on 10. May 2020
Nesting red kite shot dead because of wind energy? By Die kalte Sonne (Text translated by P. Gosselin) Red kites have little chance against wind turbines. Image: Thomas Kraft (ThKraft) – Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5 Red kites and wind power just do go well together. These predatory birds can find good prey especially where farmers mow […]
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By P Gosselin on 24. November 2019
Online site wind energy proponent site, Energiezukunft.eu here presents a commentary telling why Germany is seeing ever increasing resistance to wind energy projects and how the wind industry could be seeing the final nail in its coffin. German wind industry losing its shine, seeing growing resistance. Photo: Pierre Gosselin Behind the mounting resistance are hundreds […]
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By P Gosselin on 10. November 2019
German online weekly FOCUS here reports how cuts by wind energy giant Enercon will lead to 3000 layoffs. According to Enercon chief executive Hans-Dieter Kettwig, “politicians have pulled the plug on wind energy.” German wind energy industry in turmoil. Photo: By Pierre Gosselin Subsidies cut Once lavished with huge incentives, the German wind industry is […]
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By P Gosselin on 11. September 2019
Tenders for new wind energy projects in Germany “have fallen to a new, all-time low”, the online IWR reports here. After the installation of thousands of megawatts of German wind power capacity led to instability in the power grid, exploding electricity prices and the destruction of natural landscapes and biotopes, protests against wind projects ratcheted […]
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By P Gosselin on 12. June 2019
Online German business daily Handelsblatt here reported last month that leading German energy expert Jens Koeppen of Angela Merkel’s CDU party is calling for “drastic” permitting rules when it comes to installing wind turbines. Wind turbine towers over German landscape. Photo: P Gosselin The proposed rules would make a number of proposed wind projects impossible. Currently […]
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By P Gosselin on 3. May 2019
German DLR model computations show each year 1.2 trillion insects are killed by wind turbine rotors in Germany alone. Wind energy shows there is no free lunch. Some major drawbacks of this “green energy” supply include blighting of the landscape, health damage from infrasound, and bird killing. Now insect killing is another that is currently […]
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By P Gosselin on 17. April 2019
NDR north German television recently broadcast a report about the protests against a planned windpark near the German village of Kreien, some 200 km east of Hamburg. White tail eagles being chased away from nest by loudspeakers in order to clear the way for permitting 14 wind turbines over 200 meters tall in Northern Germany. […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 15. April 2019
A potential wind turbine installation on the island of Crete may be poised to drive an endangered raptor population to extinction. Recent studies have found the favored “renewable” energies – wind and solar – are not effective, even counteractive, when it comes to reducing emissions from fossil fuels. Solar PV installation, for example, results in […]
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