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06 Apr 2023, 12:11
Julian Wettengel

Windpower industry needs tens of thousands of new workers in Germany

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Germany needs to increase its workforce in the windpower industry for the planned doubling of installed wind power capacity by 2030, industry association BWE聽. While this would not mean a doubling of jobs, 鈥渨e are talking about several tens of thousands,鈥 said the organisation鈥檚 managing director Wolfram Axthelm. Companies are confronted with the shortage of skilled workers, which affects almost all sectors of the German economy, writes dpa. In addition, the wind power companies are still struggling with the aftermath of the enormous staff reductions of the past few years, a consequence of the faltering expansion of wind energy.

A recent report commissioned by the Hans B枚ckler foundation and labour union IG Metall also found that better working conditions are a key element to reach expansion targets. Germany aims to roughly double its onshore wind capacity to 115 gigawatts (GW) by 2030 (and to 160 GW by 2040), meaning annual capacity additions will have to reach 10 GW as of 2025. With聽several legislative reforms last year, Germany's government started to take action to accelerate planning procedures and land designation for wind energy.

Think tank Agora Energiewende聽聽to speed up onshore wind power expansion. In the short term, around five gigawatts of wind can be connected to the grid by implementing projects that are currently blocked and ready for construction, said the organisation. In the medium term, the government had to introduce several measures to ensure that the time from the start of a project to the inauguration of a wind park can be halved from eight to four years. 鈥淭he climate targets require a quadrupling of annual onshore wind power installations practically with immediate effect," said Simon M眉ller, Director Germany at Agora Energiewende.

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