German wind energy stumbles

Germany's coalition government of Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals is promising big on massively accelerating the transition to renewable energy.

The backbone of this pledge is more windmills, bigger windmills, built faster and utilising far more land.

"Wind energy is one of the supporting pillars of the energy transformation," says the

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