Germany's power production from renewable energy rose in 2022, but it is still below the threshold needed to reach the target of generating 80% of electricity from renewables by 2030, the Environment Agency said on Monday.
Renewable energy is expected to account for around 46% of German power consumption this year, up from 41% a year earlier, the agency said in its annual report.
"The decisive course for a successful expansion process must be set promptly," Dirk Messner, the agency president, said in a statement. The need for renewables became ever more urgent with the decline of Russian fossil fuel imports to Europe's biggest economy following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. Only around 0.8% of land in Germany is currently designated for onshore wind power. Berlin earlier this year drafted a bill setting out a minimum percentage of land in each of the 16 federal states that must be available for wind farms.
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