Germany’s Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) has urged the federal states and local authorities to step up the pace of wind energy expansion. “We are finally seeing growing momentum again in the expansion of onshore wind energy, especially in terms of authorizations and new installations,” he told the Stuttgarter Zeitung and Stuttgarter Nachrichten newspapers in remarks published on Wednesday. However, much remains to be done, he said. It is now important that the federal states, local authorities and the industry work together with the federal government to consistently implement the a…