News Digest Item
22 Mar 2017

“Tailwind for Baden-Wurttemberg and North Rhine-Westphalia”

Handelsblatt online

Germany’s wind power industry is located in the northern parts of the country but the western and southern federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Wurttemberg are home to a large number of suppliers, Klaus Stratmann writes on Handelsblatt online. Wind power employs around 143,000 people in Germany, according to a recent study, Stratmann explains. The offshore wind industry can mostly be found along the German coasts, but service providers and operators are spread throughout the country, creating jobs “even if the affected state itself lags behind in terms of wind power expansion”, Stratmann quotes the German Wind Energy Association’s president, Hermann Albers. 

Read the article in German here (behind paywall).

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