The new Germany speed and why it so rarely succeeds

• The LNG terminal in Wilhelmshaven should be the start of the new Germany pace: just 194 days have passed from the planning to the inauguration of the liquid gas terminal.
• However, numerous other examples show that such speed is the exception rather than the rule: A wind energy terminal in Bremerhaven that was never built, authorities that do not work digitally and sluggish planning and approval processes.
• You can read all about nine areas in which the state urgently needs to speed things up here.

December 12th was an important day for Thomas Hüwener, member of the management board at the gas network operator OGE. The last weld for the Wilhelmshaven connecting line (WAL) was made on that Monday – only nine months after the start of planning.

The gas pipeline connects Wilhelmshaven with the German natural gas network. A project like this in Germany usually lasts eight years. For Hüwener “a joint effort that was only possible through the first-class cooperation between politicians, authorities, residents and partner companies”.