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of what is needed for Europe to achieve its targets, with about 80GW of wind energy projects currently stuck in permitting procedures across Europe. This delay can impact investment for developers. As Fox notes: “Investment in wind farms in Europe fell in 2022 due to high inflation and market uncertainty – investors want stable conditions and reassurance.”
Reasons for optimism Reassessing the German government’s goal of producing 80% of electricity from renewable sources by the year 2030, Axthelm points out that currently, this stands at around 50% – not an insignificant number. “In the future, renewable energy will play an even larger role as the industry and other sectors will steer away from their dependency on fossil fuels and switch to clean electricity,” Axthelm says. He gives the traffic sector as an example: “With the [European] commission’s plans to end the sale of cars with combustion engines by 2035, electric cars will become the new standard. This will create a higher demand for electric power, which in turn will need to be generated from renewable sources. We can expect renewables to become even more ubiquitous.” Across Europe, some steps have already been taken to address the delays, with the EU instating emergency legislation in December 2022, which will
last 18 months and labels renewables projects as being of “overriding public interest” for the first time, explains Fox. “The process for repowering existing projects has also been sped up, which should unlock some extra capacity fairly quickly,” she says, concluding that “countries need to identify priority areas where permitting can be streamlined, start planning long-term grid expansion and investment, and improve auction design to deal with rising supply chain costs and market uncertainty.” ●
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