“For European wind industry, offshore projects are booming”

The European offshore wind industry is booming, but lagging grid expansion and a lack of major storage sites could hold back further rapid expansion of the sector, writes Christian Schwägerl for Yale Environment 360. The problem of too little progress in electricity grid extension was especially big in Germany, ,Schwägerl argues, where the recent reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) put the brakes on wind power development. Henrik Stiesdal, a Danish wind power pioneer, has a more positive attitude: "Once these problems are solved, wind will be able to cover the greatest part of the world's electricity needs," he told Yale Environment 360.

Read the article in English here.

For background read the CLEW dossier The reform of the Renewable Energy Act.