Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/19268 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
HWWA Discussion Paper No. 296
Publisher: 
Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA), Hamburg
Abstract: 
German wind power development is a technological success story but has involved very high subsidies. Germany was a latecomer in wind power but specific political conditions in the late 1980s and early 1990s allowed the implementation of the feed in tariff regime which has characterised Germany ever since. The wind lobby managed to constitute itself at an early stage and to develop stable alliances with farmers and regional policymakers. The concentration of the wind industry in structurally weak regions reinforced these links. With an increased visibility of the subsidies and saturation of onshore sites in the early 2000s, the lobby has been less successful in retaining support. The current attempt to develop offshore projects may suffer from less favourable interest constellations.
Subjects: 
Wind power
interest groups
technological change
JEL: 
Q42
Q58
Q52
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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