A never ending story

In the late 1990s, Hermann Albers, president of the German Wind Energy Association, was already pointing out that existing networks would not manage to accommodate

the growing supply of green power. “Instead of taking action, grid operators began

new planning, much too late because they didn’t believe in the success of renewables”, he frequently complained. In early 2005, Albers could feel that his complaints

were vindicated.

At that time, the semi-public German Energy Agency published its first study of the power grid, citing a figure which generated great interest and was highly criticised. For Germany to achieve a 20 percent share of green energy in its gross electricity consumption by the end of 2020 – a goal that the wind industry saw as much too low – an additional 1,250 kilometres of high-voltage lines alone would have to be installed by that time.

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