Our greenwind shareholders Martin Kühl and Manuel Lasse take a clear position: “What do we need? Above all, network operators must be held accountable. We all pay the price as a society when reforms are tackled too slowly or network operators try to sit out necessary changes. We need planning and investment certainty, storage capacity, optimized sector coupling, intelligent use of existing grids, and the removal of regulatory barriers! The 2027 Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) amendment needs to be improved and must address the right stakeholders!”

Our arguments:

Charge storage systems instead of curtailing wind turbines.

Our wind farms generate clean electricity. Nevertheless, turbines are curtailed when grid bottlenecks occur, even though battery storage systems, heating applications, or electrolyzers could use the electricity directly on site. This is neither economically viable nor intelligent. Redispatch should manage electricity feed-in to the grid, not curtail the generation of green electricity. Local use of electricity behind the grid connection point must be made possible.

Use grid connections intelligently

The future of the energy transition is not just about building new generation facilities. It is also about combining renewable energy assets, storage, sector coupling, and the intelligent use of existing infrastructure.

Anyone who has already established a grid connection must be allowed to use it efficiently. A potentially mandatory option for grid connection agreements (FCA), as well as overbuilding grid connection points with co-located storage systems, could create additional capacity.

Investment certainty instead of new barriers

Redispatch curtailment without compensation, additional restrictions on grid connections, and ever-new regulatory barriers are jeopardizing the economic viability of wind farms and storage systems.

At the same time, grids are still not being digitized sufficiently, and available flexibility potential is not being utilized. The consequences could be declining investment, market downturns, and job losses.