Topics

Renewable energy sources act (EEG)

Promoting wind energy through a minimum price system
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Repowering - more wind power with fewer wind turbines

repowering or the replacement of first-generation wind turbines with modern multi-megawatt wind turbines, has only played a secondary role in the german wind energy market. Yet many factors speak in favor of a comprehensive repowering programm for germany
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Grid integration

Large scale integration of wind energy in the electricity system is technically and economically feasible.
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Wind energy efficiency

Wind energy on the route to competitiveness
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Price systems

Minimum price systems are more efficient. This was now also officially stated by the EU Commissions Report - "The support of electricity from renewable energy sources"
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Protection of birds

Wind energy and the protection of birds
Two ecological issues that are not necessarily contradictionary
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Downloads

Wind Integration - developing Europes power market for the large scale integration of wind power, TradeWind Report, 3/2009
  
  
 

Power Supply 2020 - How to reach a modern energy economy,
German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE),  Renewable Energy Agency, 2/2009
  
  
 

Global Wind 2008 Report, Global Wind Energy Council GWEC, 3/2009
  
  
  
 

Renewables 2007 Global Status Report,  REN21 Renewable Energy Policy Network 
 
 
 

European Renewable Energy Industry cannot support current Commission Plans on the Framework Directive for Renewable Energies, Open letter to the European Commission President,  European Renewable Energy Council, EREC, 1/2008

energy [r]evolution - A sustainable world energy outlook
Greenpeace International / European Renewable Energy Council EREC,
1/2007, (3,8 MB)


Development of an Ecological Strategy for  Onshore and Offshore Wind Power Use
Summary: Results and Recommendations for Action
German Federal Environmental Agency (Umweltbundesamt - UBA)
March, 2007