News Digest Item
07 Sep 2017

“Windfall for the wind industry”

Berliner Morgenpost

The sudden price drop for winning bids in Germany’s onshore wind power auctions raised questions about the much higher returns wind park operators could bank on in recent years, writes Jakob Schlandt in Berliner Morgenpost. A study by Deutsche WindGuard had shown that wind park investors currently expected 8 percent interest on invested capital, writes Schlandt.

Read the article in German here.

For background, read the CLEW dossier Onshore Wind Power in Germany.

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