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Talks in the grand coalition鈥檚 Acceptance/Energy Transition parliamentary working group, which is tasked with developing measures to ensure Germany can reach its goal to expand renewables to 65 percent of German electricity consumption, have got stuck, writes Christian Schaudwet in Tagesspiegel Background. The parliamentarians are especially concerned about securing acceptance from citizens for new onshore wind turbines. The Social Democrats oppose the conservatives鈥� proposal for a nationwide introduction of minimum distances to residential areas, and are calling for concrete annual interim steps for additional renewables capacity to be decided in the working group before the parliamentary summer break.

The Federal Environment Agency (UBA) recently said that a mandatory minimum distance for wind turbines from residential areas would severely threaten Germany鈥檚 transition to renewables. Wind power has become Germany鈥檚 most important source of renewable energy and its second biggest source of electricity overall after coal. The German government aims to cover 65 percent of power consumption with renewables by 2030. But across the country, local residents鈥� groups have protested against the construction of new wind parks. Germany鈥檚 wind power lobby, the BWE, warns that 鈥渋ncreasingly professional鈥� protest groups are putting the country鈥檚 renewables targets in jeopardy.