Agreement on the expansion of solar and wind power on land (2025)

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This Agreement builds on the Climate Agreement on Green Electricity and Heat 2022 and the Climate Agreement on More Green Energy from Solar and Wind on Land 2023 . In line with the existing climate agreements, the parties to the agreement agree on the ambition to ensure framework conditions that can enable a market-driven quadrupling of electricity production from solar energy and onshore wind towards 2030.
The parties to the agreement agree that the expansion must continue to take place on market terms. This means that the development of wind turbines and solar cells on land will initially take place without government support and will be driven by the development of solar and wind projects by private companies. Market conditions, such as the price of electricity and the costs of establishment and operation, will therefore, together with local support and municipal planning, continue to be decisive for the extent of the development. The parties to the agreement have therefore agreed to create good framework conditions by, as far as possible, removing unnecessary systemic barriers and increasing consideration for neighbours and local communities that may affect the implementation and speed of the specific solar cell and wind turbine projects that have local support.
The framework shall promote a fair, reasonable and flexible balance between consideration for neighbours, nature and the green transition in the development of solar and wind energy projects on land. . The parties to the agreement wish to ensure a framework for the development of renewable energy on land that benefits local communities that contribute land to the green transition and compensates neighbours who live closest to solar cells and wind turbines.
Measures include greater compensation for neighbors of solar cell plants and faster approval for solar and wind plants.

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Agreement on the expansion of solar and wind power on land (2025)

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