Last January was the strongest January of all time in Austria. As IG Windkraft reported on Sunday, a total of 1,148 gigawatt hours (GWh) of wind energy was generated.
That was 53 percent more than the January average of the past five years. This means that 20.7 percent of electricity consumption was covered by wind energy. The production record for wind energy was broken four times this month Stefan Moidl, CEO of IG Windkraft.
“Winter is wind energy time”
Wind energy currently supplies twelve percent of Austria’s electricity consumption annually. “Winter is the time of wind energy,” says Moidl happily: “It is precisely at the time when a lot of energy is needed that wind energy can show its full potential. These figures once again demonstrate this impressively.”
Despite the record, the industry currently lacks the impetus to expand new wind farms, IG Windkraft criticized. “Changes are needed at all political levels so that the energy transition can finally be accelerated,” demanded Managing Director Stefan Moidl. “We are currently still stuck in the stop-and-go policy of the past.”
Source: Krone
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