FRANKFURT—The German wind energy federation
BWE is in talks with the German environment ministry over state
support for companies in the sector as the financial crisis
bites, a German newspaper reported.
"The expansion of renewable energy and
climate protection will stall unless the current situation
improves," Hermann Albers, president of BWE, told Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung in an interview to be published on Wednesday.
The financial crisis was slowing growth in
the sector, mainly because project financing was becoming
increasingly difficult and more expensive, especially for
off-shore wind parks, he said.
"Shortly after the crisis began we thought we would not be
affected. Unfortunately, we have to correct this assumption
now," Albers told the paper.
