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Giles Dickson WindEurope: EU states’ speaking at the WindEurope conference renewable-energy plans yesterday ‘won’t deliver 32% target’

ANDREW LEE of renewables deployment — but none has a detailed policy agenda to ational Energy and Climate achieve the goals, “which means the Plans (NECPs) drawn up by pledges are not meaningful”. NEU member states are “badly Key issues not addressed include lacking in policy detail” and will leave schedules of renewables auctions, the bloc short of its 2030 renewables measures to simplify and speed up target, WindEurope has warned. permitting, and strategies to deal Draft NECPs submitted to Brussels with renewables capacity reaching are rated “insufficient” or “poor” the end of its working life — the these big gaps,” said WindEurope those countries that have the clearest for every EU nation in an analysis situation facing an estimated 60GW chief executive Giles Dickson. plans. So it pays for governments to released by the industry body of wind power by 2030. “When are the renewables auctions get them right.” yesterday. Increasing penetration of happening? How much are you European energy ministers met All member states have to submit renewables in heating and transport auctioning? How are you going to in Romania yesterday to discuss the draft plans and then turn them into is another gaping hole, and not make it easier to get permits for wind draft plans, which have to be turned firm strategies that can help deliver one nation has a plan to simplify farms? into finalised versions by the end of the EU’s aim of an overall 32% share corporate renewable PPAs — an “It’s clear answers to these sorts this year. of renewable energy by the end of the “explicit mandate” of the EU’s latest of questions that encourages the next decade. Renewable Energy Directive, said renewables industries to invest, and VISIT RECHARGE WindEurope said some member WindEurope. means we can plan ahead and further at Stand 3-B22

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King Felipe VI: ‘feel proud, but not content’ Poland scraps retroactive wind cut ahead of 2.5GW auction

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Poland’s wind industry has fought off plans for retroactive cuts to onshore support and is set for a 2.5GW auction this summer — the largest planned in Europe this year, Recharge has learned. The latest government draft amendment to Poland’s renewable energy act no longer includes plans floated last month for a retroactive cap on revenues from already- operating wind farms, the Polish Wind Energy Association (PWEA) president Janusz Gajowiecki revealed to Recharge on the sidelines of the WindEurope King Felipe VI of Spain was taken on a tour of the stands at the WindEurope exhibition yesterday, flanked by a large entourage, conference yesterday. including the Spanish ecological transition minister Teresa Ribera and an army of security personnel. He had earlier given the keynote “That has been cancelled. speech at the official inauguration of the event, where he talked about the ‘very alarming’ challenge of climate change, telling participants to ‘feel proud of [their] achievements, however not content... we should not stop pushing even further’. The wind industry has won this battle,” Gajowiecki said. Polish renewable-energy policy has been on a rollercoaster since far-right populists from the Portugal plans auctions to add Law and Justice Party (PiS) won elections in 2015 and brought Poland’s thriving wind sector to 3GW of wind power by 2030 a near-standstill with a damaging turbine distance rule enacted the BERND RADOWITZ a second, 700MW PV round stability to the system, which can following year. earmarked for January next year. be expanded by providing storage Although the distance rule ortugal will stage auctions “Wind and solar are the most capacity in order to increase the remains, the government softened to add about 3GW of wind cost-efficient technologies [and] dispatchability of these kind of to onshore wind late last year with Pby 2030, environment and will be [the] priority” in the systems.” a highly successful 1GW tender, energy transition minister João Lisbon plans to hold tenders which saw average winning bids Pedro Matos Fernandes told for storage capacity “to ensure reaching a competitive 196 zloty the WindEurope conference security of supply in a system (€46) per MWh. yesterday. with a very high percentage of The government intends to hold The new additions will include intermittent renewables,” the a second, 2.5GW onshore wind onshore and offshore capacity, minister said. tender as early as July, although and bring the country’s total wind Portugal in 2016 committed the PWEA believes a more base to 8-9GW, he said. to ambitious 2050 clean-energy realistic timeframe for the auction “The auction mechanisms goals, including 100% renewable would be September. will ensure rapid deployment of João Pedro power. The Polish government is also Matos investments while maximising the Fernandes Wind has been an important proceeding with plans for a benefits for consumers,” added speaking element of Portugal’s industrial dedicated offshore wind act, but yesterday Matos Fernandes, who gave no base since a cluster with has not set a date for its passage. further details of the plan. production facilities for rotor If the offshore legislation and Portugal had 5.4GW of onshore country’s efforts to double its blades, towers and generators a support mechanism were to be wind in place by the end of 2018, installed renewables capacity by began operating in 2007, enacted this year, first power from according to WindEurope data. 2030, said Fernandes, adding that representing investments of wind farms in the Baltic Sea could The nation also wants to boost hybrid wind-and-PV plants could €250m ($214m) and creating feed into the Polish grid as early its existing 570MW of solar also play a role. 1,500 jobs. The construction of as in 2022, Gajowiecki added. to 7-8GW by 2030, Fernandes “These technologies have the wind farms has since spurred The Polish government also said. A 1.35GW solar auction is advantage of complementing another €1.7bn of spending, the plans to auction 700MW in PV

David Plas/WindEurope | Jason Bickley/WindEurope Plas/WindEurope | David Photography planned in a few months, with each other, providing a greater minister said. capacity.

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ANDREW LEE A line of trucks head towards ajor UK renewables the port of players are confident Calais, northern France, which is Mstockpiling will help a bottleneck for them ride out any immediate much of the UK’s imports border chaos resulting from a no-deal Brexit, the WindEurope conference heard yesterday. Executives from turbine maker Siemens Gamesa and developer ScottishPower Renewables both said they have put measures in place after identifying cross- border logjams as the biggest short-term risk of a no-deal scenario — possibly as soon as 12 April because of political paralysis in the UK’s parliament. “The biggest risk is getting goods in and out of the country, getting them through customs, getting them through ports,” said Clark MacFarlane, UK managing director for Siemens Gamesa, which brings in key components for its offshore-wind-turbine plant in Hull, northeast England. Wind giants stockpile components “We as an organisation have put extra stock in the UK in order to to protect against a no-deal Brexit put a mitigation on that.” Hazel Gulliver, director of policy and regulation at Gulliver. “We implemented our support auctions, Karl John, a “very, very buoyant”, with interest ScottishPower Renewables, which own mitigation measures to make renewable energy specialist for the in the May CfD round running is developing major wind projects sure that what we did need was in UK Department of International well ahead of the pipeline on offer. both on- and offshore, said the the UK in the first three months Trade, told a panel on Brexit at “I don’t think we’re seeing any company’s procurement strategy of this year.” the conference. attrition,” said John, who stressed had been adjusted as part of its Uncertainty over the outcome John said the offshore that the growth of the UK offshore Brexit planning. of Brexit has not dampened wind sector — which the UK wind sector is underpinned by the “Where’s the biggest problem enthusiasm for Britain’s next government sees as a “jewel in the country’s ambitious climate and likely to be? At the border,” said Contracts for Difference (CfD) crown” of its energy policy — was emissions goals.

Open trade ‘is vital to keep wind LCOE down’, says TPI boss

BERND RADOWITZ But for “deeply entrenched The trade conflict has already Nordex last year said it plans to tilt global supply chains... [and] prompted companies to change its supply chain away from China To continue to reap the benefits world-class cost on a true global their global sourcing strategies or to avoid US import duties and is of cost reduction through a basis”, trade policies must allow at least plan to do so. analysing the use of concrete or global supply chain, the wind the wind industry “to continue to German-Spanish wind OEM hybrid concrete-steel towers in industry must push for open trade operate in that same world-class the US in response to possibly Photography | Getty Tim Buelens/WindEurope policies, says Steve Lockard, chief scale on levelised cost”, explained higher turbine costs through steel executive of blade maker TPI Lockard, who is also the chairman tariffs. Similarly, GE Renewable Composites. of the American Wind Energy Energy said in October that it was The wind sector will continue Association (AWEA). evaluating its global supply chain to bring down the levelised Late last year, AWEA said as it gets a significant volume of cost of energy (LCOE) through import tariffs on Chinese components from China. technological innovations such as equipment — threatened by On a more positive note, larger turbine rotors, taller towers, US President Donald Trump Lockard added that “most cost- and the use of more advanced — combined with already Steve Lockard, effective wind” power now beats chief executive materials or modular blades implemented tariffs on imported of blade maker the marginal cost of existing coal that ease transport, the event steel and aluminium could TPI Composites plants in the US and globally. speaking ambassador told the WindEurope increase the LCOE at new wind yesterday “That is a huge milestone,” he conference yesterday. farms by up to 10%. said.

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orway will focus future onshore wind development Non its central and southern regions, with most of the windier north ruled out because of poor grid access and the need to avoid conflict with indigenous reindeer herders who have accused the nation of human rights violations. The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) has proposed 13 areas deemed most suitable for new wind power, almost all in the southern half of the Nordic country. “Despite the fact that many areas in northern Norway have the best production conditions for wind power, we propose to A Sami man highlight most areas in southern catches a reindeer Norway,” said NVE. “This is among his herd because we have placed great emphasis on the consideration of Sami reindeer husbandry and limited network capacity in northern Norway.” Reindeer and grids mean Norway Recharge reported earlier this year how Norway was the must face south for wind growth subject of a complaint to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination over identified balance “technical leave the green certificate scheme the north, southern Norway still its approval of part of the 1GW and economic considerations, it jointly operates with Sweden, has the potential for “significant” Fosen wind complex. and environmental and social leaving wind development to subsidy-free wind projects. Indigenous Sami reindeer interests”. Although it would be compete on price alone in a Hordaland, a county in herders claim wind development possible to apply for a licence system that is already well-served southern Norway, is already the impacts crucial grazing grounds outside the designated zones if with renewable power from the planned location for the 1.5GW for their animals, disrupting a the plan is accepted by Norway’s country’s vast hydro fleet. Hordavind project, which would centuries-old element of their energy ministry, it would be more Norwegian grid operator be Europe’s largest single-phase culture. difficult to obtain one. Statnett said last year that despite wind farm if advanced by NVE said the 13 areas it has At the end of 2021, Norway will having less windy conditions than developer Norsk Vind Energi.

Corporate renewables enters new era as Lego buys PV developer

LEIGH COLLINS has been 100% powered by green energy since 2017. The owner of the Lego Group is Enerparc’s American affiliate, taking corporate renewables to Enerparc Inc, currently operates the next level after acquiring a more than 100MW of PV plants majority stake in the US arm of in the US, and describes itself German solar developer Enerparc. as a specialist in developing,

Kirkbi — the private investment engineering, building and “The significant majority stake in chief investment officer at Kirkbi. Photography | AFP/Getty and holding company owned by operating utility-scale solar farms. Enerparc Inc gives Kirkbi a unique The company took a 32% stake the family of Lego founder Kris The size of the stake and the opportunity to take ownership in in Germany’s 312MW Borkum Kristiansen — has been at the price Kirkbi paid for it has not a company that has established Riffgrund 1 offshore wind farm in forefront of the global corporate been disclosed, but the companies an operational, commercial and 2012 for around €490m, and a 25% renewables boom, investing in say that Enerparc Inc’s current scalable platform to bring solar share in the UK’s 258MW Burbo offshore wind projects as early management team will retain a power to many more Americans,” Bank Extension in 2016 for about as 2012, while the Lego Group minority stake in the business. said Thomas Lau Schleicher, €440m.

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Saitec lands EU funds for 10MW+ floating wind design

DARIUS SNIECKUS the hull] but also to accelerate the commercialisation process panish engineering of the 10MW-plus model, as a consultancy Saitec Offshore way of tackling the past and the Shas secured almost €2m future at the same time,” Saitec from the European Commission chief technology officer David (EC) to build a part-scale version Carrascosa tells Recharge. of an innovative concrete floating “We are analysing three wind turbine design that promises potential sites [for the part-scale to have a “levelised cost of energy SATH] at the moment,” he adds. like onshore wind” when built at “We expect to make a decision [by its full 10MW-plus size. June] for this stepping stone.” The EC funding, awarded under The flagship is slated to be the Horizon 2020 scheme, will be commissioned in October, with put towards building a deploying Saitec currently in discussions a 1:6 prototype of its SATH with several turbine OEMs, Saitec Offshore’s (Swinging Around Twin Hull) though it is not yet disclosing a SATH floating design for a 24-month offshore preferred supplier. wind concept testing programme to de-risk a “This [EC] funding, of course, 2MW demonstrator, known as has an impact on our commercial DemoSATH, in Q3 2020. activity we are involved in,” The SATH design is based on to face the wind. The concept “Through this project we says Carrascosa, pointing to the a joined pair of cylindrical pre- has previously been put through want to de-risk the DemoSATH company’s current tendering to stressed concrete hulls anchored an extensive part-scale testing demonstrator and get a unit in deliver SATH foundations for to the seabed via a single-point campaign in wave tanks at the the water, test assemblies and 12MW turbines “on several sites mooring system that allows the University of Cantabria’s Instituto various concrete mixtures [for in Europe and Asia”. unit to swing like a weathervane de Hidráulica Ambiental.

Recharge launches 2019 global floating wind prize

ANDREW LEE Demo,” said Recharge editor-in- chief Darius Snieckus, who is Equinor’s Sebastian Recharge, the global renewable convening FOWT19, where close Bringsværd energy news and intelligence to 1,000 delegates are expected. receiving last year’s award on platform, has unveiled the “Today we have commercial- behalf of Finn contenders for its second annual scale projects being advanced Gunnar Nielsen from Recharge floating wind power award. off Europe, Asia and the US, editor-in-chief To be announced on the eve of next-generation designs moving Darius Snieckus FOWT19 in Montpellier, France towards testing, and even the on 23 April, the Recharge Floating World Bank aiming to underwrite Wind Power Player of the Year projects in emerging markets development we continue to see Recharge is now running an award will recognise a pioneer, such as Brazil, South Africa and in the sector is awe-inspiring. online poll, where readers can innovator or influencer in the elsewhere. And we are now seeing first vote on a shortlist of candidates. fast-emerging energy sector. “And Ireland now has its flagship projects where floating wind is This year’s finalists include “When discussing the rapid prototype project under way, being deployed in other sectors, turbine designer and inventor Images | Saitec | Recharge progress of the global energy while Greece is considering a first including offshore oil & gas.” Henrik Stiesdal; the US National transition, there are few better industrial-scale development.” Last year, Finn Gunnar Nielsen, Renewable Energy Laboratory’s, examples than floating wind, Expectations that the global who led the R&D team at energy principal offshore engineer which, when we launched floating wind fleet could expand giant Statoil (now Equinor) that Walter Musial; Ideol boss Paul Recharge in 2009, literally to as much as 15GW by 2030 designed the Hywind Demo, was de la Guérivière, and Yoshinori amounted to a single turbine could well be under-ambitious, awarded the inaugural prize at a Ueda of the Japan Wind Power moored off Norway, the Hywind Snieckus added. “The speed of ceremony in Marseille, France. Association.

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SGRE to equip world’s largest offshore wind farm in a lake

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Developer Windpark Fryslân has awarded a conditional contract to build a 383MW nearshore wind farm in the Netherlands that would be the largest yet to be constructed on a lake. The deal for the project on the Ijsselmeer artificial lake went to Tesla’s 100MW/129MWh Zuiderzeewind, a consortium battery storage of installer Van Oord and wind facility — the world’s largest — turbine OEM Siemens Gamesa at the Hornsdale wind farm in South Renewable Energy (SGRE). Australia SGRE had already been named preferred supplier for the €500m ($564m) Fryslân project, which is supported by the Dutch province of Friesland. A final investment Batteries and offshore wind lead decision is expected to be taken in the third quarter of this year. The contract signed in renewables price plummet Amsterdam foresees the installation of 89 of SGRE’s DARIUS SNIECKUS “Our analysis shows that the Giannakopoulou. 4.3MW SWT-DD-130 turbines. LCOE per MWh for onshore Tifenn Brandily, energy Construction is slated to start enewable technologies’ wind, PV and offshore wind have economics analyst at BNEF, this year, with the wind farm levelised cost of energy fallen by 49%, 84% and 56% added: “PV and onshore wind expected to be fully operational R(LCOE) is continuing respectively since 2010. Li-ion have won the race to be the by 2021. to fall, with battery storage and battery storage has dropped by cheapest sources of new ‘bulk The Fryslân project is offshore wind showing the greatest 76% since 2012, based on recent generation’ in most countries, independent of the Netherlands’ improvements in competitiveness project costs and historical but the encroachment of clean ambitious national offshore wind said Bloomberg NEF (BNEF). battery-pack prices.” technologies is now going well programme, and instead part The benchmark LCOE for She noted the “most striking beyond that, threatening the of the province of Friesland’s lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries has finding” in the BNEF report is balancing role that gas-fired plant own renewable-energy target of dropped 35% to $187/MWh since the cost improvements in Li-ion operators, in particular, have been 530MW by 2020. the first half of 2018, while hoping to play.” Van Oord is responsible for offshore wind’s fell by 24% Offshore wind has been the design, manufacture and to under $100/MWh over PV and onshore wind have helped by the scale-up of installation of foundations the same period, the analyst turbine technology and and cables, and will deliver the said. won the race to be the auction-style tenders for equipment to install the Siemens Onshore wind and PV cheapest sources of new ‘bulk new capacity to create Gamesa turbines. have also continued to lower “sharp reductions” in their LCOEs, tumbling by generation’ in most countries capital costs that translate Traffic on the Afsluitdijk, the 10% and 18%, respectively, into an LCOE that has dyke that created to $50/MWh and $57/MWh been slashed from over the IJsselmeer compared to a year ago. batteries, which are “opening $220/MWh five years ago to well artificial lake “Looking back over this up new opportunities for them under $100/MWh today. decade, there have been to balance a renewables-heavy “The low prices promised by staggering improvements in the generation mix”. offshore wind tenders throughout cost-competitiveness of these Batteries co-located with PV Europe are now materialising, low-carbon options, thanks to or wind projects are “starting with several high-profile projects technology innovation, economies to compete in many markets reaching financial close in recent of scale, stiff price competition and without subsidy” with months,” said Giannakopoulou. and manufacturing experience,” coal- and gas-fired generation “Its cost decline in the last six said Elena Giannakopoulou, head for dispatchable power that can months is the sharpest we have

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Google, GM & Walmart lead reborn corporate renewables group

A Walmart- branded wind turbine at a company distribution centre in Red Bluff, California

DARIUS SNIECKUS it’s a bakery, a big-box retailer, of Fortune 100 companies have Miranda Ballentine, who recently or a data centre — should have set greenhouse gas emissions wrote a column for Recharge on ore than 300 US an easy and direct path to buy reduction targets or renewable- the second wave of US corporate companies led by clean energy. Ultimately, sourcing energy purchasing goals,” he said. renewables buyers, added: “Never MGoogle, Facebook, GM clean energy should be as simple “Reba’s [re]launch demonstrates before has such a diverse group and Walmart have launched an as clicking a button,” said Reba that large energy buyers from of organisations, from every expanded Renewable Energy chairman Michael Terrell, head across every sector are committed industry, come together to form Buyers Alliance (Reba), with the of energy market an association with aim of bringing more than 60GW strategy at Google, a single, market- of new clean-energy production on which is now 100% Every enterprise — whether it’s a focused, mission- line by 2025. renewables-powered. driven vision of a Originally founded in 2014 as Rob Threlkeld, global bakery, a big-box retailer, or a data zero-carbon energy a partnership between non- manager of sustainable centre — should have an easy and f utu re .” governmental organisations energy at GM, US corporate wind the Rocky Mountain Institute, added that the onus direct path to buy clean energy and solar energy World Wildlife Fund, World was on commercial deals in 2018 set Resources Institute, and Business and industrial a single calendar- for Social Responsibility, Reba power consumers to buy to doing their part to solve this year record at 6.43GW, doubling now represents a group of renewables-sourced electricity problem.” the previous high of 3.22GW corporate renewable energy on environmental grounds, GM announced last month it in 2015, fueled by high-volume buyers with annual revenues of pointing to the more than two would buy wind power to green its transactions from the likes of $1trn and 48TWh of electricity billion tonnes of greenhouse gases facilities in Michigan, joining rival Facebook, AT&T, Walmart, consumption, more than 1% of generated by the sector last year. Ford in bringing renewables to the ExxonMobil and Microsoft, the country’s annual total. “Mitigating these emissions is heartland of the US auto industry. according to the Business

Photograph | Walmart Photograph “Every enterprise — whether part of the reason why over 70% Reba’s inaugural chief executive, Renewables Center.

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