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Offshore wind requires government action to realise its tremendous potential
[15-09-2009]
STOCKHOLM — If anyone was looking for an effective example of grass roots lobbying, they needn’t look any further than the European Offshore Wind Declaration that close to 150 business leaders from 35 nations signed here at the Offshore Wind 2009 conference.
Divided into three sections, the declaration brings together the ingredients that are necessary to create a mature, offshore wind sector that can help transform Europe’s future energy system.
It begins with the recognition that more than 100 GW of offshore wind projects are currently planned for Europe and that a total capacity of 150 GW of offshore wind power predicted for 2030 could meet up to 17% of EU electricity demand while avoiding 290 million tonnes of CO2 annually.
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Europe will continue to lead global offshore wind
[15-09-2009]
STOCKHOLM - About 80% of energy generated by offshore wind will come from Europe by 2020, Marc Mühlenbach of Spain´s Emerging Energy Research, said today. Europe´s offshore wind industry is in “good health” and is set to “lead the global offshore expansion”, he said, speaking at the European Offshore Wind 2009 conference and exhibition in Stockholm.
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Interview with Imar Doornbos from the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs
[15-09-2009]
In two years time, the European Offshore Wind Conference will be held in Amsterdam. EWEA talked today to Imar Doornbos, who works in the ministry of economic affairs as a renewable energy advisor for The Netherlands, about offshore wind and the opportunities it offers.
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Fact or fantasy – can offshore wind really deliver by 2020?
[15-09-2009]
Are European offshore sector players fantasising when they bandy about phrases like 50 per cent wind power by 2050? Given that offshore wind energy currently supplies under per cent of Europe’s power, and that substantial grid and technology development needs to happen before it expands much further, isn’t the industry being unrealistic?
Hard-hitting questions such as these were discussed by business leaders at a session of the European Offshore Wind 2009 Conference in Stockholm this morning.
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Europe’s offshore wind future needs new transnational power grid
[15-09-2009]
Building a new energy system for Europe by 2030 may seem like a daunting task since it will require thoughtful planning, exhaustive research, proper engineering, billions of Euros and faith that the end product will be efficient, affordable and long lasting.
But the quicker that a pan-European electricity super highwaystarts taking advantage of the vast potential of wind energy located in the North, Irish and Baltic Seas, the better. That’s the assessment of the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) and several people interviewed here today in the exhibition hall at the Offshore Wind 2009 conference.
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Interview with Frauke Thies, Greenpeace
[15-09-2009]
STOCKHOLM — Frauke Thies, who works for Greenpeace on EU energy policy issues, spoke to EWEA today in Stockholm at the Offshore Wind 2009 conference.
She was one of two co-chairs at a conference session on wind power and environmental issues.
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Time to act – urgency and excitement at world´s largest offshore wind event
[14-09-2009]
Chords of ABBA rang out as delegates took their seats for the opening session of the European Offshore Wind 2009 Conference in Stockholm. Andreas Nauen, CEO of Siemens Wind Power and chair of the conference, spelt out to the participants , press and speakers filling the hall the huge possibilities ahead for offshore wind power.
“We are on the verge of a new age of electricity”, he announced. “We can make it the age of clean electricity”.
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Offshore wind power can help revolutionise Europe’s energy future
[14-09-2009]
STOCKHOLM — It is fitting that a new plan to power Europe in the future with a massive increase in offshore wind energy was released today here in this historic 13th century city of islands on Sweden’s southeast coast where Lake Malaren meets the relentless Baltic Sea. Swedish mariners have known for more than eight centuries that the combined power of wind and water is an unstoppable force to be reckoned with, feared, admired and exploited.
Today in Stockholm, at the Offshore Wind 2009 conference, politicians from Sweden and throughout the European Union learned from a new report called Oceans of Opportunity
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Change is in the air: unleashing the world's largest offshore wind energy event
[13-09-2009]
As policy makers, scientists, entrepreneurs and journalists gather today in Stockholm for the beginning of the third bi-annual European Offshore Wind Conference and Exhibition, there is a sense that a historic moment is about to arrive
Much has changed in the two years since the last offshore conference was held in Berlin: European wind power got a huge boost earlier this year when the Renewable Energy Directive with its target of 20% renewable energy was adopted; the world’s economy spiralled down into the nastiest recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s, and concern over global warming caused by burning fossil fuels became permanently etched onto the media horizon.
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Belgium’s offshore winds show their might
[09-09-2009]
The bright sunshine on the morning of the trip to visit Thornton Bank offshore wind farm boded well. However during the 90 minute drive from Brussels to the port of Ostend, Belgium, clouds gathered ominously overhead. Upon arrival at C-Power’s visitor centre, journalists who had signed up to the press visit of the wind farm, organised by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), were greeted with the disappointing news that the waves of the North Sea were now over the safety limit of 1.5 metres. The trip would have to be put on hold: even the technicians working out at sea that morning had been forced to return to dry land.
It was a pertinent demonstration of the ability of the weather to make or break a day’s planned work on an offshore wind farm. Filip Martens, the CEO of C-Power, which owns the farm, explained to the visitors that each operation has a 36-hour weather window and, “on average, the site can be accessed 87% of the year.”
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- EWEA report:
Oceans of Opportunity - EWEA Offshore Wind Energy Factsheet
- European Offshore Wind Declaration
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