In 2021, the Grohnde nuclear power plant in Lower Saxony on the Weser River was shut down. Now, immediately next to it, the Emmerthal energy cluster is growing with three very large battery storage systems, ground-mounted photovoltaic systems, and a new substation for several 380-kilovolt high-voltage lines.
Regulation is killing the country. Not so much the regulation itself (as there’s a lot of good and necessary regulation), but the aquiration and approval processes can take forever - slowing down projects to a crawl.
Its a toxic mix of complexity and slowness, which costs a lot of money and repels investment.