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Wind energy continues fast growth in Germany
Wind energy continued its fast growth in Germany last year but could slow in the coming years, the Federal Association for Wind Power said last Tuesday. Germany had 17,574 high-tech windmills operating at the end of 2005, said the association in a statement. This was 11 percent more than at the end of the previous year. The windmills, which received billions of Euro in state subsidies, generated six percent of German electricity at the end of 2004, said the association. “Growth of wind energy is expected to slow in the coming three years mainly because many of the best land sites in Germany for generating wind power are already in use,” said the statement. “Attention is now turning to the possibility of building huge, offshore wind energy parks in the North Sea and Baltic Sea.”
