Energy and Climate Law

Today a new climate package has been released in Germany. In the build-up to the event all major politicians of the country called this the `make-or-break` point of German climate policy. For years Germany failed to meet its climate objectives and is sure to miss its greenhouse gas emission targets for 2020. Especially the transport and the heating sectors do not deliver. So which implementation measures to reach Germany`s climate goals are envisaged? And why took more than 1 million people in Germany to the streets (`climate strike`) in protest?

35 new windmills have so far been build in Germany in 2019 . Only 6 years ago, in 2012, there were more than 1000 new windmills per year. The onshore wind sector is the most prominent example of a flatlining energy transition and a severe renewable energy crisis, in a country that not long ago took much pride in giving the word `Energiewende´ to the world. A `Wind Summit´ of the German government now tried to revive the sector, but no discernible progress has been made. Windmill producers are criticizing a lack of legal certainty, but also say that `sweet spots´are already taken and NIMBY attitudes are on the rise.