Germany to Introduce Bill to Accelerate Wind Energy Expansion

A wind turbine is pictured in the southern German town of Schonach, January 6, 2008. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler (GERMANY)

Germany's economy and climate ministry will present a package of measures to speed up the expansion of wind energy, documents reviewed by Reuters showed on Wednesday, as the country turns to renewables to cut its use of Russian fossil fuels.

The new law will impose binding area targets for onshore wind energy expansion on the federal states and will open landscape protection areas for wind energy "to an appropriate extent" in each state.