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Where Are the Women in Wind? THE EUROPEAN WIND INDUSTRY MAGAZINE April 2010 Volume 29/No 2 PEDRO MARÍN Where are the URIBE Spanish Secretary women in wind? of State for Energy INSIDE: Wind Directions survey – win an iPod! REACTORS TRANSMISSION MINING FRONT END BACK END RENEWABLE ENERGIES & SERVICES & DISTRIBUTION Wind power Designed for offshore AREVA is fast becoming a global reference in renewable energies with a rich portfolio of four technologies: wind, bioenergy, hydrogen and energy storage solutions, and solar. In wind, AREVA designs, manufactures, assembles and commissions 5 MW high-output turbines specifically for the offshore market. Proven know-how in rotor blade design and manufacturing enables fast ramp-up of this key component. 250 AREVA M5000 turbines have been selected for use in European offshore wind parks. Most recently, the group installed and commissioned Alpha Ventus, Germany’s first offshore wind park. Copyright : AREVA Multibrid : AREVA Copyright - iStock AREVA RENEWABLE Tour AREVA 1, place Jean Millier 92084 Paris La Défense cedex - France Phone: 33 (0)1 34 96 30 00 Energy is our future, don’t waste it! - © : 2010 - Design and production March Fax: 33 (0)1 34 96 34 47 www.areva.com | contents | THE EUROPEAN WIND INDUSTRY MAGAZINE April 2010 Volume 29/No 2 viewpoint 5 The unstoppable industry wind statistics 6 European wind energy continued its surging success in 2009 brussels briefi ng 11 The latest EU news wind news 15 feature 18 Wind: lowering electricity prices feature 22 Iconic wind turbine to help power a Canadian mountain wind energy basics 25 New wind turbine designs feature 26 Breaking down the barriers country focus 29 Lithuania focus 30 Where are the women in wind? mini focus 35 Giving Europe a breath of fresh air EWEA news 38 EWEC zoom in 40 science corner 44 Direct drive options challenge gearboxes interview 46 Pedro L. Marín Uribe, Spain’s Secretary of State for Energy guest columnist 49 It’s a man’s world Wind Directions is published fi ve times a year. The contents do not necessarily refl ect the views and policy of EWEA. fi rst person 51 Jean-Charles Beaubois, RTBF Publisher: Christian Kjaer Editor: Sarah Azau the last word 58 Writers: Sarah Azau, Chris Rose, Crispin Aubrey, Elke Zander, Rebecca J. Barthelmie, Professor at Indiana University, US Zoë Casey Design & production: www.inextremis.be Cover photo: AWEA/Jill Gangon Cert no. SGS-COC-006375 WIND DIRECTIONS | April 2010 3 DESIGNED TO PERFORM. It’s the differences that you can’t see right away that count. The Nordex Gamma Generation – coming soon. B_91_426_AZ_gamma_210x297_GB.indd 1 09.03.2010 11:41:09 Uhr | viewpoint | The unstoppable By Christian Kjaer industry Chief Executive, EWEA ike any successful industry, the wind sector A refreshing campaign Lnever sleeps. Orders, applications, authorisa- Despite being male-dominated, EWEC 2010 tions, production, delivery, construction, grid con- looks to be one of the biggest and best events nections – the different processes go on, overlap, yet, with sessions touching on topics from policy continue, slow down, speed up, are fi nished, and and markets to fi nance to grids, and an exhibi- start again. tion space measuring over 5,000 square metres, Despite this ongoing activity and expansion, that was sold out months ago. I am especially for me perhaps the most exciting part of the pleased that EWEC 2010 will be the platform for wind energy year is the annual European Wind the launch of EWEA’s new year-long campaign: Energy Conference and Exhibition (EWEC). It is A breath of fresh air. exciting to see a European city fi ll up with mem- Although from inside the industry it is easy to bers of the industry as Marseille did in 2009 pick out the many benefi ts of wind – not just the and Warsaw is doing in 2010. jobs, but also the boost to energy security, the zero Every year at EWEC, familiar faces mingle with CO2 emitted, the avoided fuel costs, that it lowers unknown ones, speakers present fresh angles power prices, and the business opportunities it on issues we know well and introduce new topics gives Europe as the technology leader – these mes- to debate, old business ties are renewed and sages need to be spread far and wide. The new ‘A new contacts and deals made. breath of fresh air’ campaign aims to do just this. Through its website – www.ewea.org/freshair The gender balance and the new EWEA blog on http://blog.ewea.org, However, it is always slightly disappointing that its peppermint breath freshener tablets, its amongst these faces at EWEC there are not leafl ets and above all its interactive ‘adopt a wind more female ones. Wind has long been a men- turbine’ tool, the campaign will bring information heavy sector, as are other industries based on on wind and its many advantages to decision- engineering and manufacturing. Although this makers and citizens. For more on the campaign, has evolved in recent years – and certainly, the see page 35. EWEA staff is 60% female! – it remains the case today. On page 30, Wind Directions investigates The price is right why this is. In fact, in this issue of Wind Directions, on page One of the many advantages the wind industry 18, we take a closer look at one of the least fa- offers is its richness in terms of jobs – 192,000 miliar on that list of wind energy benefi ts – wind’s Europeans currently work in or are connected effect on power prices. New EWEA-commissioned to the sector, and by 2020 this should go up to research gathers together the most relevant previ- 446,000. There is currently a lack of qualifi ed ously published examples of the way wind energy, workers for the range of positions on offer from which has no fuel cost, pushes more expensive manufacturing and engineering to project man- and polluting technologies out of the power mix agement, and both women and men are needed and so brings the overall electricity price down. We to fi ll them. will also be launching this research at EWEC 2010. To attract them, schools and universities need With all this to look forward to, I hope that to promote the renewables sector as a career those attending EWEC fi nd it refreshing and possibility, and public authorities and private stimulating, and that we can also take the time companies must make joint efforts to provide to pause – just for a moment – to celebrate the training to allow workers to transfer from declin- phenomenal growth and the multiple benefi ts of ing economic sectors to the wind power sector. wind, the industry that never stops. WIND DIRECTIONS | April 2010 5 | wind statistics | European wind energy continued its surging success in 2009 By Chris Rose Annual EWEA statistics show how well the wind power industry large hydro, 120 MW (0.46%) of con- and other renewables are growing while some more traditional centrated solar power, 55 MW (0.2%) of small hydro, 12 MW (0.04%) of other sectors are in retreat. gas, 3.9 MW (0.01%) of geothermal, and 405 kW of ocean power. espite the worst recession in more EWEA Chief Executive. “The fi gures con- Together, renewable energy technolo- Dthan 65 years, the continued growth fi rm that wind power, together with other gies accounted for 62% of new European of wind power last year sparked such renewable energy technologies and a power-generating capacity in 2009, a bright light for the vitally important shift from coal to gas, is delivering mas- marking the second year in a row that European energy portfolio that it can only sive European carbon reductions, while renewable energies have accounted for be described as phenomenal. creating much needed economic activity the majority of new installations. Data compiled by EWEA and other and new jobs for Europe’s citizens.” The EWEA report indicates that each sources shows that wind power instal- After wind, of all new EU electricity- year since 2008 renewable electricity lations accounted for a staggering 39% generating capacity installed last year in generating technologies have accounted of new electricity-generating capacity addition, 25% or 6,630 MW came from for more than 50% of new power in 2009. By way of comparison, wind’s gas while 17% or 4,600 MW was from installations – mostly wind power, but share of newly installed capacity a year solar photovoltaics. also solar PV, hydro power, and biomass. earlier increased 35%. In addition, 2,406 MW (9%) of new This trend has increased from just 14% The 10,163 MW of EU wind power coal was installed, 581 MW (2.2%) of of new installations in 1995, to the 61% capacity installed last year represents biomass, 573 MW (2.2%) of fuel oil, last year. a 23% increase over 2008. It is also 442 MW (1.7%) of waste, 439 MW The data reveals that the power the second year in a row that more wind (1.7%) of nuclear, 338 MW (1.3%) of sector in Europe is still moving away power was installed in the EU than any other generating technology. Wind power’s future continued to glow New installed and de-commissioned capacity in EU in 2009 (MW) brightly on a number of other fronts. The wind capacity installed by the end of 2009 will in a normal year produce 163 TWh of electricity, meeting 4.8% of total EU power demand. According to the latest fi gure from Eurostat, fi nal electricity consumption in the EU-27 was 3,372 TWh in 2007. Not surprisingly, most of the new wind power capacity (9,581 MW) was realised through onshore installations while the remainder (582 MW) was derived from new offshore facilities.
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