Environment minister Peter Altmaier and Hannelore Kraft,the representative of the Social Democrats (SPD) in current energy coalitiontalks, over the past weekend had agreed on steep cuts to support for onshorewind, and on lowering the country’s 2020 offshore wind target to 6.5GW from 10GWthe outgoing government had still aimed for.

For 2030, Altmaier and Kraft said they want to lowerGermany’s target to 15GW, down from 25GW.

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