Wind power has become the most important component of German energy policy.
If he is too weak, everything collapses.
This has become apparent in the past few years.
The expansion on land, which would be necessary to compensate for the planned shutdown of conventional power sources, fell far short of the targets.
The lowest point of the snail's pace was the admission that the electricity demand had also been incorrectly forecast.
The figures that the German Wind Energy Association has now published show that Germany would have to generate five times more electricity from wind power every year in order to tolerate the phase-out of coal and nuclear power and e-mobility.
The interests of the rural population are being neglected
The race to catch up would have to overcome three obstacles: bureaucracy, space and environmental protection. The bureaucracy is often pushed onto the tendering model, but it was devised to put a stop to a blind cost explosion. The areas are rare because the wind isn't blowing efficiently everywhere, there are distance rules to residential areas and the sealing of the landscape should stop at forests. Finally, environmental and species protection is only really important even to the Greens as long as it does not counteract the urgency of climate policy.
The fact that it is not the population but politics that is responsible for the sluggish expansion is an election campaign hit by the Greens, which appreciates the interests of the city dwellers, but puts those of the affected rural residents aside.
It is not only from the green election manifesto that they will have to face an expansion in which the citizens' initiative threatens to become a dirty word.
Great hopes are placed in “repowering”, the upgrading of old locations with plants that are twice as high and which provide far more output.
But is that enough in view of the ambitious German climate protection goals?
Do exits and entrances still run synchronously?
What to do if not?
Serious answers will only be given after the federal elections.
Even then, however, it is uncertain whether the result will really be a stable structure.