Energy & Science
Germany’s Onshore Wind Industry Slump Set to Drag into 2020
- Just 1.4-1.8 gigawatts of capacity will be added this year
- Industry added 1.1 gigawatts in 2019, lowest since 2000
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Germany’s onshore wind industry, once the nation’s flagship technology in the switch to clean power, will stay in the doldrums for a third year as project approvals sputter.
Europe’s biggest wind market will probably add just 1.4 to 1.8 gigawatts of new onshore capacity this year, the BWE wind and VDMA machine-maker lobby groups said on Tuesday. The forecast is slightly more what was added in 2019, a year marking the weakest expansion in two decades.