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Despite AfD criticism, German wind energy sees record year
For far-right AfD co-leader Alice Weidel, renewable energy is unreliable and should make way for nuclear power. But Germany's wind sector is on track to make significant gains.
She called for Germany to boost the use of planet-heating fossil fuels, including Russian gas, and bring back nuclear power as part of a "sustainable, serious energy mix" — a plan which most experts have said is unrealistic. Robert Habeck, Germany's climate and economic affairs minister, credited the growth to the moves made by the center-left SPD/Greens/FDP coalition government to "simplify and accelerate" the permitting process for wind and solar installations over the last two years. And the renewables sector is itself a boost to the economy, as Kerstin Andreae, a former Greens lawmaker and chair of the German Association of Energy and Water Industries, said earlier this week.
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