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Minimum distances for wind power turbines from residential areas could be suspended by Germany's federal government in a bid to accelerate the technology鈥檚 sluggish expansion, public broadcaster ARD based on information by news agency Reuters. According to a draft law seen by Reuters, the government wants to introduce changes to planning and construction law as well as to environmental law, with the aim of reserving two percent of the country鈥檚 area for onshore wind power. This is more than twice the area that is currently designated. Minimum distance rules, which are set by German states to minimise conflicts with neighbours, could remain in place as long as each state fulfils its contribution to national wind power buildout targets. The amendments might be adopted as early as this month, ARD reported. The federal government is justifying 聽its intervention in state law with the requirements imposed by climate action obligations and with national security considerations in the wake of Russia鈥檚 invasion of Ukraine, which highlighted the greater energy import independence Germany could achieve with a resolute ramp-up of its renewable power capacity. According to Reuters, the draft says the new 鈥淥nshore Wind Law鈥� is supposed to 鈥渄rastically accelerate鈥� expansion and 鈥渄o away with all hurdles and constraints鈥� that currently slow it down.

Less than one percent of Germany鈥檚 land area is currently designated as potential wind turbine construction locations, and about 0.5 percent are actually being used. The government aims to roughly double the capacity of onshore wind power in the country to 115 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, much of which can be achieved by replacing old turbines with modern ones at existing construction locations in so-called repowering operations. If the two percent-target is achieved, Germany could potentially construct onshore turbines with a total capacity of 165 GW, the draft law said.