Solar Expansion in Big Cities Is Booming – but There Are Black Sheep

According to an analysis of Federal Network Agency data, 40 out of 82 German cities have fulfilled their target over the last two years. Two years earlier, there were only seven. However, the statistics refer solely to the ratio of installed capacity and space, and other important factors are not taken into account.Regensburg, Oldenburg, Fürth and Ulm are currently the German big cities with the greatest advances in photovoltaic construction, wh…

About half of the 82 cities investigated by Deutsche Umwelthilfe are well on the way to achieving the climate targets of the Paris Agreement by 2035, while the rest of the cities are in need of catching up - and this is partly significant.

In 42 out of 82 major cities the photovoltaic expansion of the last two years is not enough to achieve the goals of the Paris climate agreement by 2035. Some would miss the climate targets even by long. This is shown by a current evaluation of the German Environmental Aid (DUH), which is available to the editorial network Germany (RND). {/mprestriction} Potsdam and Salzgitter form the final lights, according to DUH. They would have to triple the…