facts, analysis, exposure of wind energy's real impacts Windaction http://www.windaction.org/articles/c119+132?theme=atom Xarayar 2006-06-12T02:16:27Z .36900 2012-12-28T13:31:21Z 2012-12-28T13:31:21Z

Germany considers itself the environmental conscience of the world: with its nuclear phase-out and its green energy transition, the federal government wanted to give the world a model to follow. However, blinded by its own halo Germany overlooked that others have to pay for this green image boost and are suffering as a result.

.35534 2012-07-17T13:58:39Z 2012-07-17T13:58:39Z

Germany's revolutionary switch to renewable energies is stalling and the country's new environment minister has now admitted as much by casting doubt on the ambitious goals set last year. Media commentators say that he and the rest of Chancellor Merkel's government must do more.

.35329 2012-06-25T13:39:38Z 2012-06-25T13:39:38Z

A spokesman for RWE Innogy--the company's renewable energies unit--said that the company has been notified by grid operators TenneT TSO GmbH that there will be additional, unquantified, delays, and that its planned Nordsee Ost wind farm now faces delays of considerably over 12 months.

.35042 2012-05-23T01:48:13Z 2012-05-23T01:48:13Z

Germany's energy revolution has hardly begun, but it's already running out of steam. There is a lack of political decisiveness and companies are complaining of a dearth of incentives to invest billions in necessary infrastructure. Progress or no progress, taxpayers continue footing the bill.

.34372 2012-02-20T21:23:50Z 2012-02-20T21:23:50Z

Grid operators are not given sufficient financial incentives to connect wind farms to the grid. There is a lack of co-ordination among the authorities as to who is responsible for what. ..."I'm pessimistic for the time after 2015 if nothing changes. No one will go on investing if the grid link is as uncertain as it is now, neither E.on nor others."

.32652 2011-08-02T16:15:44Z 2011-08-02T16:15:44Z

Long new lines would carry wind power across the nation to industrial and population centers along the Rhine River from existing wind power farms in the former East Germany and proposed offshore wind turbine clusters. Other direct-current (DC) connections may run under the North Sea.

.30638 2011-01-05T16:28:02Z 2011-01-05T16:28:02Z

Germany's dream of converting to renewable power generation requires the construction of unsightly new overland power lines carried by masts 80 meters tall. Citizens' groups and local authorities are resisting the projects in a campaign that poses risks for Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives.

.38197 2013-04-26T13:15:40Z 2013-04-26T13:15:40Z

Renewables already added a 47 percent surcharge to electric bills at the beginning of this year. Now we're going to see something worse. The big, power-consuming manufacturers have been exempted from these charges so they can stay competitive with the rest of the world, but everyone else is going to bear the brunt.

.30222 2010-12-01T11:26:23Z 2010-12-01T11:26:23Z

Europe's energy consumers must pay 20 cents per kWh generated, plus an additional 5 cents per kWh for transmission costs. They must pay this regardless of whether they need the electricity at the moment, and despite the fact that a kWh of wind electricity is worth less than 3 cents on the Leipzig Power Exchange, due to the intermittent and highly variable nature of wind.