Saturday 28 November 2009

Dirkshof

On Friday I cycled 50km across northern Germany to the North Sea coast, to visit Dirkshof, the first publicly owned wind farm in Germany, started 20 years ago by farmer Dirk Ketelsen, who has many of his neighbours as shareholders in an extremely profitable venture bringing 10% per annum return on investment thanks to the German renewable energy law with its feed-in tariffs

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