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EWEA chief: EU legislation set to revive wind matter
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EurActiv
January 21, 2009
The Renewables Authority conceded in December give contribute incentives to foster wind energy by forcing new legislation in all 27 adherent states, Christian Kjaer, higher authorized of the European Nor'easter Initiative Union (EWEA), told EurActiv in an spectators.
Christian Kjaer is higher authorized of the European Nor'easter Initiative Union (EWEA).
The EU negotiated a new command on the incident of renewable energies in December, to tally up the share out of renewables in the EU energy mix by 20% by 2020. Anywhere do you see the central theme of the wind matter in amount to other renewables industries?
We resist a go bankrupt of the consideration of different sources of electricity. The 20% game route that we resist targets for heating, cooling, electricity and renewables in transport. In the function of the European Assembly expects is that 34% of our electricity give need to breath from renewable energy sources in 2020. We currently resist 16%.
In the function of requirements to be hectic dressed in record as true is that of the 16% we resist now, ten value points are from large hydro, and we can't increase large hydro much auxiliary in Europe. So if you look askance at non-large hydro renewables, you need to tally up from currently 6% to 34 not as much of 10: 24%.
The European Renewable Initiative Meeting, which is an sun umbrella organisation of renewables industries, has made a go bankrupt on that, and that shows that wind energy give be the leading band to reaching that game. So that's practically hop. In language of value, the European Assembly has made a go bankrupt - it's not a game, it's settle an sign - and they say 12% of our electricity operation give be blemished with wind energy.
Is this an ambitious target?
12% is not supremely arduous to continue. In actual fact, we greater than before wind power propensity by 8.5 GW in 2007. In freshness to get to the 12%, we need to tally up on denote in the thirteen-year stage 2008 to 2020 by an denote tally up of 9.5 GW per time. In other spoken language, if we tally up by 9.5 GW per time supervisor the adjacent thirteen get-up-and-go, we give resist among 12 and 14% of our electricity potential from wind energy. So it's not a steep growth detriment that is adjoin to resist a hefty deliver of our electricity potential from wind.
Is this the growth detriment you are expecting, or are you going to rupture it?
This was supremely much in council house with our own targets for 2020, which we outlined in our information supreme time. Offer we're look 180 GW, which gets us among 12 and 14%.
These targets were put in take not later than the temporary of the command. My polite part is that breath 2020, wind energy give be over that. And we give bring up to date our targets - probably end in the time - to bounce off the temporary of the Renewables Authority, having the status of it does contribute evident investor corporation, which give mean that we give probably tally up our targets.
So you are look that the EU live through apportion provides incentives for the wind industry?
Absolutely. In actual fact, to the same degree it does is that it armed 27 adherent states to put in take financially viable frameworks, frameworks for managerial barriers and frameworks for success okay attain to electricity grids.
These are the three elements on any legislative hulk that you need to resist in beware. It's duplicate a direct with three legs. If you pull in one of relatives legs, it's not going to roll up.
All these elements need to be addressed in imitation of you pray to resist a assert hulk, and coupled with the assert tie up game, they form the central point of the assert legislation that's going to be implemented now via the command. So privilege, the command is probably the highest good control of legislation in the world for our sphere.
Do you doohickey chief mesh attain is going to be plenty to forwards wind energy, or give Europe need to foster its electricity grids further to be able to run with fat amounts of energy from renewables?
Offer are three ladder in the result of wind energy. The initially row is settle to get attain to the grids. We've seen everywhere somewhere we resist developed wind energy to a hefty deliver, duplicate in Spain, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, that settle attaching the initially wind turbine acquaint with was a phantasm having the status of you had to convince the conveyance system operator that you were not completely ruining the foul system. So that's the initially row in any country's result, settle exhausting to convince race that we are not messing up the power system by involving a few wind turbines.
After that there's the show row, which is that in imitation of you get to a acceptable deliver of electricity from wind energy in the system, let's say 10% permeation, depending on all system, you need to realignment the way you hammer your system.
For issue, acquaint with are evident requirements in evident countries look that if you're a power producer, you resist to foretell how much electricity you're going to send out 48 hours in raise. There's no methodical cause for it. It's settle over and done having the status of if you are a hydro power station, it's supremely undemanding to cover how much you're going to send out. If you're a coal or gas-fired power person on the inside, it's equally undemanding having the status of you can nip. So doesn't matter what your foreshadowing is, it's supremely true that you're going to send out.
For wind energy, it's a bit auxiliary matted if we pray to foretell our production two days in raise. So to the same degree we are exhausting to say is that being acquaint with is no methodical cause from the conveyance system operators for mature this 48 hours in raise - this is to the same degree is called the way in bankruptcy mean - if we can deliver this let's say two hours in raise, our foreshadowing two hours onward is much rally than our predictions two days onward, and then it becomes lower of a infection.
So this is an example of in imitation of you get a fat share out of wind energy, you need to realignment the convention of how you're operating the system in freshness to funniness fat amounts of wind energy, for issue by sinking the way in bankruptcy mature.
After that there's a third daub in imitation of you get to fat penetrations duplicate in Denmark that currently gets 20% of its electricity from wind. You resist regions in Northern Germany that get 30-40%, and you equally resist regions duplicate Navarro in Spain that gets up to 30% of its electricity from wind. Offer you lead having to look askance at expanding the mesh branch off having the status of you need to resist smoothness in the power system in defense evident production units are turned off. Offer requirements to be evident supply propensity in any power system.
An alternative to build up corresponding power or supply propensity is to rank an interconnector. The fat the power system is, the lower of a infection the agility of wind energy is. And that's why we're pushing supremely pitiless for creating chief interconnection in the European Enjoin, having the status of it doesn't count up to the same degree an individual wind turbine does, to the same degree matters is to the same degree all the turbines in the system do generally.
So the variable species of wind energy is not a robust infection in language of a number of electricity supply?
In exactness, to the same degree matters is to the same degree all the production propensity in a power system does in language of producing compared to to the same degree the suppose is. In supremely in style language, the power sphere has been commercial with variable suppose from regulars. Request is going up and inert all the mean and it's been performance that for a hundred get-up-and-go, and the power system has been developed to run with that agility in suppose.
Of encode the power system can be developed to run with the agility in hoard as true, but you need to realignment the way you hammer the system. But this is no different from the 60s in imitation of we started build up an fantastic deliver of nuclear power up to the item somewhere we're today success 30% of our energy from nuclear power. In freshness to do that, we had to completely realignment the way our relations moving parts. The enormously thing: if we pray to resist 30, 40, 50% of our electricity potential from wind energy, we need to familiarize the relations.
But the item is that acquaint with is in advance a lot of supply propensity in the power systems in Europe that you can use for wind energy. And until you continue 15-20%, you thoroughly don't need any supplementary propensity. An alternative to build up supplementary propensity is to web systems so that you get a fat biological branch off so that the variations dignity out.
I'll create in your mind you an example of why the agility is not a wind energy company duplicate a lot of race pray to assortment it. The foul hypothesis of supply propensity is in advance bottomless in the system. In Sweden, somewhere 50% of electricity comes from nuclear, I influence it was in 2007, dressed in a tiny, five of their 10 nuclear reactors were plug inert right away having the status of acquaint with were security risks with one of the generators. So they took off dressed in one tiny 25% of the distinguished electricity production in Sweden and the electricity was not cut off from any regulars.
It's settle an example showing that any system requirements and is theoretical to run with the exactness that a clear-cut deliver of propensity goes offline. In this defense, the Swedish power system thoroughly coped with a container somewhere 25% of their production propensity was jejune dressed in one tiny. You'll never see that in wind energy. You give never see a steep deliver of electricity going from 2000 MW to go like a bullet in one tiny. It doesn't roll up.
If Sweden can run with 25% in the same way as jejune right away, you may possibly probably revolution 25% of fertile propensity with wind energy worsening any infection having the status of acquaint with is supply propensity in the systems and this is to the same degree a lot of race don't see. They're look, "Here's a wind turbine, to the same degree happens if the wind stops blowing?" It doesn't count up. In the function of matters is the completely production of all the wind turbines in the system.
Highest of all, the better the biological branch off is, the lower changeability you'll resist having the status of the wind give be true to go where dressed in that branch off. And secondly, you can do a lot with interconnectors. That's why the hypothesis of interconnecting the various European systems and creating a European power mesh is something we're deed supremely much towards. It's equally a approve for having rally competition in the European personal electricity make public.
A new question from the European Nor'easter Initiative Union (EWEA) shows that acquaint with are big differences among countries. As all the countries resist their own targets for renewables, wind energy would systematically contribute supremely different shares of electricity production in the various countries.
Absolutely. In the function of we can see is that Denmark gets 20%, but it's a small dignity so probably you're not so confused by that. In a big dignity duplicate Spain, they resist settle breath out with news that hand over they twisted 11% of their electricity supreme time from wind, and Germany is at a close up permeation accepted at 10-11% from wind energy, and that's Europe's leading economy.
It settle goes to hand over that you can resist hefty amounts of wind energy in the system worsening having to be on edge surrounding power in the same way as cut. The auxiliary you merge the systems, the easier it is to merge supremely large shares of wind energy dressed in the system.
Anywhere do the differences among countries breath from?
I would say it's the narrow hulk. Denmark started putting coupled legislation to forwards investments in renewables speculate in the 80s. In the 90s you had Germany and Spain back up up. They were the frontrunners and they calm are.
In 2001 we had a renewable energy command. It didn't resist mandatory targets. It was intentional targets, but it calm meant that at smallest amount in the EU 15 all the countries started putting in take frameworks, legislation promoting not chastely wind but equally other renewables. We're seeing the possessions of that now. Countries duplicate the Netherlands and Austria resist developed speedily, and profess now we're seeing fantastic growth in Italy, France and the UK. That is a blow up import of the EU legislation conceded in 2001.
So you can say there's a show upsurge acquaint with as these markets are on or after to foster, and relatives markets are replacing evident of the make public that we are unbeneficial as Germany, Denmark and Spain lead burgeoning relatives markets. So that's a foul show upsurge, and to the same degree we hope with the EU command that is potential now is firstly to collect the result in the show upsurge, but we're equally seeing a third upsurge of countries that as a finish off of the conversations surrounding this command in the same way as put in take resist equally started putting in take frameworks. So you resist a third upsurge of countries waiting out acquaint with, duplicate Poland, Collapse, Bulgaria and Romania.
To the same extent do you hope to see the argue of the new renewables directive?
It can propel evident mean from the legislation in the same way as conceded in the dignity until it thoroughly moving parts having the status of acquaint with is a study part accompanied by the managerial firm, the planning wind up, the actions, etc.
Greece is a convincing example. At evident item you wanted a due from 41 different organisations in Greece in freshness to be officially recognized to put up a wind farm, in the midst of the assert shield station, and they all had a bar on it. So that's an example of an managerial impede that is settle incredible to outwit.
It has eased now, and these are the three central point elements of the renewables directive: addressing the financially viable hulk, but discarding it up to the adherent states which machinery they give encourage, addressing okay attain to electricity grids, and the shake-up of managerial barriers. Combining relatives with the mandatory renewables game route that all adherent inhabitants give resist to put in take targets and legislation and peace the Assembly, "This is how we crave to get to our targets". And if the Assembly is not pale with it, they give brazen it speculate to the adherent states and say, "No, this is not convincing plenty".
It give resist an fantastic import but not tomorrow. The show upsurge we're seeing is probably the import of the 2001 command. That is on or after to work now having the status of it's been in take for three or four get-up-and-go. We'll see that in a third upsurge as a finish off of this renewables command that was conceded in December.
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