EWEA blog: Wind farms are not the only ones who need financial support
EWPA's blog - etea August 19, 2010
By guest blogger, Tuuliki Kasonen-Lins, Estonian Wind Power Association
Recently there have been several articles in the Estonian media concerning the excessive price of renewable energy that consumers have to pay, and giving the cause as the highly expensive investments in wind energy. It has been forgotten though that every new power plant needs subsidising and wind farms have been the only power plants built in our country in recent years. Indeed, the investments in oil shale plants constructed during Soviet times do not appear on the energy bills of today’s consumers.
Estonia is investing 23 million euros from sales of AAU-s into wind energy
EWPA's blog - praktikant August 2, 2010
Estonia is selling unused AAUs (Assigned Amount Units) to Spain and directing the proceeds into wind energy, which will increase the wind energy capacity in Estonia by approximately 25-30 MW. These wind farms will not receive renewable energy subsidies. Read more »
EWEA blog: Innovative ideas for how to produce wind energy in the future in Estonia
EWPA's blog - etea June 28, 2010
Two months before this year’s Global Wind Day, the Estonian Wind Power Association announced an imaginative contest with the aim of generating innovative ideas on what a wind turbine might look like in the future. On the 15 June, when the energy from wind was celebrated all over the world, the winners of the contest were announced and an exhibition showing many great ideas for the future opened. Read more »
Global Wind Day is celebrated
EWPA's blog - etea June 15, 2010
Today, on the 15th of June 210 events in 26 countries take place to celebrate Global Wind Day. In Estonia winners of the “Future Wind Turbine” contest will be announced and the exhibition with all the contest entries will be opened. Read more »
Adopt a wind turbine in Europe
EWPA's blog - etea April 26, 2010
Despite the air traffic disruptions European Wind Energy Conference EWEC 2010 still took place in Warsaw between 20 and 23 of April. One of the activities carried out at the conference was the launch of European Wind Energy Association’s (EWEA) new campaign - ”Fresh Breath of Air”. You can support the campaign by adopting virtually a wind turbine in one of the wind parks in Europe.
Estonian Wind Power Association adopted its turbine from Estonia’s first wind park Pakri. Adopted turbine prevents 3025.88 tons of CO2 per year. Vote for EWPA’s wind turbine and adopt your own and you can win a trip to wind park in Europe.
