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Lemwerder (Lower Saxony) • Therefore, today we will continue the topic of solar panels and windmills in German spaces. Renewable energy sources in Germany already account for more than 40 percent of the total electricity generated.

Ulm (Baden-Württemberg) • At the same time, the official German statistics in these data take into account wind, sun and water energy, as well as obtained by various methods from biomass and the organic part of household waste.

Jakobsdorf (Brandenburg) • In 2018, onshore (onshore), offshore (offshore) and park wind turbines in Germany accounted for nearly half of total renewable energy generation, 41% and 8% respectively.

Betz (Brandenburg) • The share of solar power plants in this renewable energy “cocktail” has reached 20%.

Gundi (Lower Saxony) • Exactly the same, ie 20% came from the use of biomass as an alternative source of electricity. Another three percent comes from using the organic part of household waste.

Heimbach (North Rhine-Westphalia) • The remaining seven percent of renewable energy comes from hydropower. Opportunities to create hydroelectric power stations in Germany are limited, but these resources have been used for a very long time. This power plant was built in the Eifel region in 1905. Equipped with modern turbines, it is still working properly.

Hallig Hooge (Schleswig-Holstein) • To complete the picture, here is a breakdown of all the sources in Germany for 2018: nuclear power plants – 13.3%, lignite – 24.1%, hard coal – 14.0%, natural gas – 7, 4%, hydropower – 3.2 %, wind – 20.2%, sun – 8.5%, biomass – 8.3%.

Harzweiler (North Rhine-Westphalia) • In 2038, Germany intends to completely abandon the burning of brown coal for electricity generation. The last nuclear reactor, according to the decision of the federal government, should be decommissioned in 2022. Last year, nuclear power plants and brown coal accounted for more than 37%, which must be replaced by something.

Siversdorf (Brandenburg) • At the end of 2018, there were more than 29,000 onshore wind turbines in Germany. There are about 1,350 additional windmills in the coastal waters of Germany, but more than forty of them are not yet connected to the power grid.

North Sea (Schleswig-Holstein) • The main problem is the need to build new energy routes to transfer energy from the northern regions, where the winds blow more and stronger (there are many of these turbines), to consumers in the western and southern parts of Germany.

Lepos (Brandenburg) • These plans have caused protests by residents in those densely populated areas through which power lines are running. In some places, people are demanding that underground high-voltage power lines be removed.

Rügen (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) • Residents in Germany are facing increasing resistance to plans to install new wind turbines in various regions. Related lawsuits are often successful, which is already having a noticeable impact on the industry’s annual growth rates – especially as the right spots are becoming increasingly difficult to find.

Worms (Rhineland-Palatinate) • Only 743 new wind turbines were commissioned in Germany in 2018, according to Deutsche WindGuard. At the same time, the previous year 2017 was a record year in the history of the development of this type of renewable energy in Germany: about 1,849 new facilities.

Dassow (Mecklenburg – Vorpommern) • In total, there are now about a thousand civic initiatives in Germany opposing the construction of new windmills. Their proponents believe that these installations destroy the living space of birds and bats and distort the landscape and that infrasound and other constant noise from these installations is detrimental to the health of the people who live in the neighbourhood.

East Frisia (Lower Saxony) • These initiatives require, among other things, consideration of gas and steam power plants as alternatives, increased efficiency of coal-fired plants, and a review of the German parliament and government’s decision to phase out nuclear power.

Sauerland (North Rhine-Westphalia) • Industry representatives generally indicate that there is no evidence of negative health effects of infrasound. As for the death of birds due to wind turbines, experts give different figures with a maximum of 200 thousand per year in Germany as a whole. For comparison, about 18 million birds die annually as a result of collisions with window glass and facades.

Seversdorf (Brandenburg) • More than 100,000 bats (or three times as many by some estimates) are killed each year not only from blade collision, but also from turbulent injuries in flight. Many die during seasonal migration. Experts call for these factors to be taken into account – in particular, turning off windmills during hours of special activity of bats.

Bedburg-Hau (North Rhine-Westphalia) • The rules governing the selection of windmill sites are governed by state laws. For example, in North Rhine-Westphalia, the minimum distance to apartment buildings is 1500 m, in Thuringia – 750 m. In Bavaria, this distance is calculated using the formula “installation height x 10”, that is, for example, two kilometers between apartment buildings and a two-hundred-meter windmill.

Rentsow (Mecklenburg – Vorpommern) • Discussions about the development of renewable energy are often passionate in Germany and will continue for the foreseeable future. In order to increase the desire of residents to see such facilities in the vicinity, it is proposed, in particular, to allocate an additional part of the income to specific areas for various projects that are necessary and useful for the local population.

Author: Maxim Neleubin