"#Germany’s far-right #AfD party, hoping to clinch its first wins in two east German state elections on Sept. 1, is trying to pick up countryside votes by making opposition to #RenewableEnergy projects a centrepiece of its campaign."
It's the same playbook for far right parties everywhere: Stoke fear about immigrants, stomp on "woke", and work against clean energy.
The Secret Behind Germany’s Record Renewables Buildout
"#Germany tackled the industry’s toughest problem: slow permitting.
Some especially conducive moves include designating renewable energy projects as being in the national interest, sharing power-generation profits with locals who host solar panels or wind turbines, and providing long-term certainty to energy businesses that the government is serious about its climate goals."
A proposal for profit sharing with communities that host solar or wind farms is effective at reducing local resistance (this is how wind farms are everywhere in Denmark), with knock-on effects on building transmission corridors.
I mean oil and gas production gives royalties to the local communities, why should renewable energy production not do the same?
And it would be a good counterproposal to the far-right AfD strategy of riling people up against renewable energy.
“The vast tracts of land identified ...places enormous pressure on our rural counties, many of which rely on public lands for agriculture, grazing, mining, recreation, and community development.”
Personally, I think the mining and agriculture concerns are scant compared to the very real tax issue. We see transmission lines or renewables projects face scrutiny when the power itself doesn’t go to the people directly impacted. The same could be true here with taxes."
https://heatmap.news/plus/the-fight/spotlight/nevada-joe-lombardo-blm-solar
Nevada, ground zero for solar development in the American West, is now seeing a different kind of renewables revolution – against development. It might endanger the Biden administration’s crowning solar permitting achievement, and will mean developers in the Silver State will have to reckon with em...
I think the article suggests that if you let local communities share in the profits (as they do in Denmark) there will be much, much less resistance to wind and solar parks (there is very little in Denmark, which is studded with wind and solar farms).
Edit to add:
Found an article about that, see my reply to the original post.
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