Germany’s air traffic control agency Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS) will reduce protection areas around rotating radio beacons in a move that creates the potential to unleash several gigawatts more wind power capacity.
The measure comes after the country’s economics and climate ministry and the transport ministry in April struck a deal to change safety rules for weather radars and ground-based radio beacons for aviation.
In practice, the DFS will have to adapt its beacons and allow wind farms to be built closer to them.
