Germany Needs to Invest in Ports, Ships to Expand Offshore Wind
- Not new offshore wind farms added in the North Sea last year
- Investments in harbors, ships and converters urgently needed
Parts for offshore wind turbines in Cuxhaven, Germany.
Photographer: Sean Gallup/Getty Images
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Germany’s wind industry warned that the country’s targets for expanding the renewable energy are increasingly threatened by supply-chain bottlenecks.
Industry groups called for investment in ports, converter stations and ships to prevent capacity constraints limiting the expansion of wind energy, which is key to securing future power supplies to Europe’s largest economy. Germany is phasing out coal and switched off its last nuclear power plants in 2023, but its installed wind capacity of 8.5 gigawatts remains far short of its 2030 goal of 30 gigawatts.