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I don't know why you would call 120 GW massive. Wind (and solar to a lesser degree) have been purposefully hampered by regulation over the last decades (have a
by cycomanic 4y ago
I don't know why you would call 120 GW massive. Wind (and solar to a lesser degree) have been purposefully hampered by regulation over the last decades (have a look what it takes to install a turbine if you have a big property, or how you can install solar on a house where you rent out portion of it). There are reasons why Germany who was leading in both solar and wind energy, now has hardly any left.
A good example is the plot of installed wind capacity as a function of time here https://www.wind-energie.de/english/statistics/statistics-germany/ https://www.wind-energie.de/english/statistics/statistics-ge...
You can see there are a couple of bursts of installed turbines and then it slumps down again. The curve very closely correlates with the party in power for the Economy ministry.
- ZeroGravitas 4y agoNote that's production, not capacity, so weather has an impact. But yes, Germany didn't follow the same growth as say China because the political right managed to stifle offshore wind a decade ago. Very bad move for multiple reasons.