Germany’s coalition government has agreed to pass a law later this month to allow auctioning of an additional 4GW each of onshore wind and solar power, and an as yet unspecified volume of offshore wind capacity.
According to a statement issued by the leaders of the coalition government, the auctions should be “effective” in equal shares in 2019 and 2020.
The extra clean power capacity will help the country save between 8 million and 10 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions.
The coalition further agreed that the share of renewable energy in Germany’s electricity mix should rise to 65% by 2030, from around 36% in the first half of 2018.
Industry groups have been calling for an auction of at least 1.6 GW of additional offshore wind capacity.
In the German North Sea, there is about 660MW of unused grid capacity available at the 900MW DolWin 6 grid hub, while one additional 750-900MW grid hub could go live in the German part of the Baltic Sea up to 2025, TSO 50Hertz has said.
Source:renews
