Stress on the High Seas: Germany's Wind Power Revolution in the Doldrums - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

...the expansion of the country's offshore wind farms in particular, which Minister Röttgen considers of paramount importance, is constantly beset by new problems.

On December 6 he received an urgent message from Leonhard Birnbaum, RWE's chief commercial officer, and Fritz Vahrenholt, who heads up the company's renewables division. The two men expressed their serious concern that "the timely realization of grid links" for offshore wind farms had become "dramatically problematic," thus seriously jeopardizing the expansion of the sector and therefore also the government's plans. "This development puts us in an extremely difficult position," the two RWE managers wrote.

This was preceded by a similar letter from TenneT, one of the grid operators; albeit that constituted lobbying for either a limitation of the right for grid access or state help in adapting the network. RWE's problem discussed by Spiegel happens to be with TenneT, too (which BTW is a Dutch grid company that bought E.on's grid operations in Germany).

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