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To achieve the national climate protection goals, a rapid and significant uptake of the installed capacity of onshore wind energy is crucial. Contrary to this necessity, the expansion figures have dropped drastically in recent years. There are many reasons for the faltering expansion of wind energy. In addition to a lack of land securement or unexploited land potential, long approval processes, conflicts with species protection laws, air traffic and many other requirements that must currently be met for the construction and operation of wind turbines are also hampering the expansion of onshore wind energy.

Against this background, we aim to further develop the legal framework for the provision and securing of the necessary areas and their possible use for wind energy. The focus of the project is to develop tangible options for simplifying planning and permitting law in order to accelerate the securing and provision of land on the one hand and the granting of permits for wind energy projects on the other, thus strengthening the expansion of wind energy. In doing so, the relevant regulations will be considered both in relation to new installations and with regard to repowering projects. When developing optimisation proposals, special attention will be paid to the species protection aspects in order to contribute to the reduction of species protection barriers.