1.7GW of new onshore capacity was added in the first six months, or 66% more than in the year-earlier period, according to data from the wind energy federation BWE and VDMA Power Systems, the energy arm of engineering federation VDMA.

Of that, 267MW came from repowering projects, while 64MW in wind installations were removed.

That pushed the country's cumulative wind capacity to 35.4GW.

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