Daniela Winkler, Marc Zeccola, Kornelius Löffler

Zeitschrift für Europäisches Umwelt- und Planungsrecht, Volume 21 (2023), Issue 1, Page 76 - 94

The energy crisis in Europe triggered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in spring 2022 has shown how vulnerable the German energy industry is, due to its dependence on fossil raw materials. For decades, German governments treated “Renewables” listlessly. In the fight against climate change and the energy crisis, the German government has introduced two legislative packages in 2022, which mainly concern the acceleration of the installation of wind power plants and are thereby intended to contribute to making Germany more independent, more resilient, greener and thus more fit for the future. This article is dedicated to the second legislative package, the so-called Act to increase and accelerate the installation of onshore wind power plants, in short: Wind-on-Land Act (“Wind-an-Land-Gesetz”). The aim of the article is to evaluate the legal regulations on the basis of the legislative efficiency (“legislative Effizienz”). To this purpose, the legal modifications will first be presented (II.). This followed by an introduction to the narratives of acceleration and acceptance, which were introduced by the legislator itself, as well as the concept of legislative efficiency (III.). Afterwards, the new law is measured against the narratives of acceleration (IV.) and acceptance (V.) to finally assess its legislative efficiency (VI.).

Daniela Winkler, Marc Zeccola

Zeitschrift für Europäisches Umwelt- und Planungsrecht, Volume 16 (2018), Issue 3, Page 306 - 313

Germany is at risk to miss most of its self-set environmental targets for 2030. Not least, the transition to renewable energies (Energiewende) is a major challenge for politics and law. As a sub-sector, the legislator promotes the expansion of renewable energies, in particular through financial assistance for energy producers. For political and legal reasons, the volume of the funding is determinated by open competitive bidding. The detailed procedure is regulated in the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) of 2017. The tendering process serves a variety of purposes: cost efficiency, controllability of expansion, social acceptance of the transformation process and the diversity of energy producers. The following paper aims to show how the Renewable Energy Act pursues these goals and to highlight still unresolved challenges in this regard.

Daniela Winkler

Zeitschrift für Europäisches Umwelt- und Planungsrecht, Volume 11 (2013), Issue 3, Page 206 - 210

Building regulations are increasingly influenced by measures of effective energy generation and efficient energy use. The latter, for instance, refer to requirements for optimal thermal insulation or commitments to the construction of photovoltaic systems. These requirements even apply to monuments – an aspect that so far has hardly been investigated in closer detail. In this context, a major challenge emerges from the fact that the protection of h

Daniela Winkler

Zeitschrift für Europäisches Umwelt- und Planungsrecht, Volume 4 (2006), Issue 4, Page 5

198 Anspruch auf Erlass eines Aktionsplans EurUP 4 | 2006 I. Einleitung Neue Erkenntnisse über Gefahren, welche durch erhöhte Feinstaubkonzentrationen in der Luft entstehen können,1 haben politische und gesellschaftliche Aufmerksamkeit erregt. Durch die Luftqualitäts-Rahmenrichtlinie 96/62/ EG2 sowie ihre Tochterrichtlinie 1999/30/EG3 wurden in diesem Bereich für das deutsche Luftqualitätsrecht neue Impulse gesetzt. Gemäß § 4 Abs. 2 der 22. BImSchVO ist ei