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A trifecta of bureaucracy, furious local opposition and intra-Green battles on wind energy vs protecting iconic birds like eagles will make delivery of Germany's expansion of wind power arduous at best (Photo: Karsten Würth)

German wind energy stumbles

Germany's coalition government of Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals is promising big on massively accelerating the transition to renewable energy.\n \nThe backbone of this pledge is more windmills, bigger windmills, built faster and utilising far more land.\n \n"Wind energy is one of the supporting pillars of the energy transformation," says the

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A trifecta of bureaucracy, furious local opposition and intra-Green battles on wind energy vs protecting iconic birds like eagles will make delivery of Germany's expansion of wind power arduous at best (Photo: Karsten Würth)

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Leon Mangasarian worked as a reporter and editor in first East Berlin, then Berlin, for Bloomberg news, dpa, and UPI.

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