German Wind Energy Association publishes Wind Energy Market Overview for 2010/2011
The German Wind Energy Association (BWE) has published its magazine Wind Energy Market 2010/2011, a comprehensive overview of the international wind energy industry.
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Germans Push for More Renewable Energy; Offshore Wind To Benefit
Germany’s federal government has hatched a plan to accelerate the expansion of the country’s energy grid to transport more renewable energy, particularly from offshore wind farms, after Japan’s nuclear disaster alerted voters in the Europe’s largest electricity market of the pressing need for non-nuclear power.
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Germans Push for More Renewable Energy; Offshore Wind To Benefit
Transmission Stalls European Offshore Wind Power
Germany’s first offshore wind farm has been built and is now generating electricity. Dozens more wind farms are slated for construction over the next few years – as part of the German government’s push to install 10,000 megawatts (MW) offshore wind capacity by 2020. But all of them will need to plug into powerful grids, both offshore and onshore, to transport the thousands of MW of additional renewable energy across the country and possibly beyond, and these may be slow in coming.