New wind turbines being constructed at a wind farm in Germany on October 12, 2021.
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Europe set up 17.4 gigawatts of wind power capability in 2021, according to figures from market body WindEurope, a record quantity and an 18% boost compared to 2020.
Despite this, the Brussels- based company stated it was insufficient to satisfy energy and environment objectives. The European Union, which includes 27 nations, set up 11 GW in 2021, far listed below what WindEurope states is needed.
“To reach its 40% renewable energy target for 2030, the EU needs to build 30 GW of new wind a year,” Giles Dickson, the CEO of WindEurope, stated in a declaration Thursday.
“But it built only 11 GW last year and is set to build only 18 GW a year over the next five years,” Dickson stated. “These low volumes undermine the Green Deal. And they’re hurting Europe’s wind energy supply chain.”
By 2030, the EU wishes to cut net greenhouse gas emissions by a minimum of 55%. When it concerns eco-friendly sources in its energy mix, a proposition has actually been made to increase the present target of a minimum of 32% by 2030, to a minimum of 40%.
WindEurope indicated allowing as being an obstacle for the sector’s growth moving forward, explaining it as “the main bottleneck.”
Thursday’s report follows a letter from WindEurope to the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen that stated “the rules and procedures that public authorities use to permit wind energy projects are too lengthy and complex.”
“Europe is simply not permitting anything like the volumes of new wind farms that you and national Governments want to build,” the letter, datedFeb 22, stated.
Signed by the CEOs of ENERCON, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, GE Renewable Energy, Vestas, Nordex and WindEurope, the correspondence stated the EU could, to name a few things, “drive a simplification of permitting processes at national level.”
Last year, onshore setups in Europe hit 14 GW, with the overseas sector including 3.4 GW. Wind farms in Europe produced 437 terawatt-hours of electrical power, conference 15% of electrical power need in the EU and U.K.
The greatest market for overseas setup was the U.K., where 2.3 GW was set up. Sweden blazed a trail in onshore wind, with 2.1 GW coming online there.
Capacity describes the optimum quantity of electrical power setups can produce, not what they’re always producing.
