24/7/2007
Germany's wind farms challenged
Germany is the world's biggest user of wind power, and it has ambitious plans to build even more wind turbines.
Germany has huge wind energy expansion plans |
It has decided that generating nuclear power is not the way forward, and it has decided eventually to close all the country's existing nuclear power stations.
The country's great hope for is for a future of green energy, and in particular wind power.
However, some observers are now questioning whether all the investment in wind power makes economic sense.
Growing demands
Alsleben is a small market town in eastern Germany on the banks of the Saale river.
It's a quiet place surrounded by rolling farmland, but for the past few weeks the people here have been getting used to some new neighbours.
On the hills above them are 37 giant wind turbines. Alsleben is now the site of one of the biggest wind farms in the country
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