According to a government draft report on Monday, Germany intends to meet all of its power demands from renewable sources by 2035, contrasted to its earlier goal of abandoning fossil fuels “well before 2040,” Reuters reported.
Other Western nations have pressed Germany to become less reliant on Russian gas, but the country’s plans to cut down coal power plants by 2030 and shut down its nuclear power facilities by the end of 2022 have left it with few alternatives.
Renewable energy capacity increase, according to Economy Minister Robert Habeck, is a critical component in reducing the country’s reliance on Russian fossil fuel supply.
According to the article, an equivalent reform to Germany’s Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) is in the works, and wind and solar power should account for 80 percent of total electricity generation by 2030.
According to the research, Germany’s onshore wind energy capacity may grow twofold to up to 110 gigawatts (GW), offshore wind energy might reach 30 GW – the equivalent of ten nuclear power stations – and solar energy could grow more than threefold to 200 GW by then.
Renewable sources of energy have been dubbed “the energy of freedom” by German Finance Minister Christian Lindner.