“We will most likely see a record number of installations in Germany this year,” Krogsgaard said in an interview during the EWEA 2014 conference in Barcelona.

German energy minister Sigmar Gabriel in a draft to amend the country’s Renewable Energies Act (EEG) has proposed a cap of 2.5GW for new wind installations a year from 2015 on. The government also said it wants to cut onshore wind feed-in tariffs, as well as giving preference in support to strong wind locations.

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