Archive for 2010
EWEA blog: Agreement at climate change talks in Cancun is a step forward
EWPA's blogDecember 11, 2010
By Chris Rose.
Overcoming inertia and self-interests, the international community reached an agreement early today on the need to curb global warming and set the world on a path to a more sustainable future. Read more »
EU countries agree to build common offshore electricity grid
EWEA newsDecember 3, 2010
EWEA Press Release, 03.12.2010
Today’s signing by 10 Ministers from all the ‘North Seas Countries’ of an agreement to develop an offshore electricity grid is a long-awaited and major step forward for a single European market for electricity. Read more »
Open call for wind energy investment support
EWPA's blogNovember 24, 2010
Environmental Investment Centre (KIK) announced in the end of October a call for new wind park support applications. The total amount of investment grant is approximately 23 million Euros and the funds come from Estonia’s deal of unused AAU’s (Assigned Amount Units) with Spain. The deadline for applications is 11 January 2011. Read more »
Estonian justice minister rejects bill cutting renewable energy subsidy
Estonian newsNovember 23, 2010
Baltic News Service, 23.11.2010
Justice Minister Rein Lang has refused to put his signature under a bill drafted by the Ministry of Economy and Communications that seeks to reduce the subsidy paid to producers of renewable energy in Estonia. Read more »
Three wind energy keywords from the Head of TSO
EWPA's blogNovember 23, 2010
Taavi Veskimägi, the Chairman of the Board of Elering brought up in his opinion story “Very secure or low-cost electricity”, published in newspaper Postimees 22.11.2010 today’s key areas and issues in Estonian energetics. The Head of Estonian TSO describes also wind energy sector by three keywords:
- Considering the 1.84 Estonian cent / kWh subsidy with a maximum level of 600 GWh produced wind energy per year and the current market price, there will be installed as many wind parks as it is needed to meet Estonia’s renewable energy targets.
- There will never be built any off-shore wind parks in Estonia based on the subsidies of renewable energy, off-shore wind energy can only be realized with the support of green trading systems etc.
- With the current subsidy scheme, and functioning Estlink 2 and balancing energy market it is tehcnically possible to integrate into Estonia’s grid without curtailment all wind turbines that are economically viable.
EWEA blog: More than $5 fossil fuel subsidies for every $1 of support for renewables
EWPA's blogNovember 10, 2010
The International Energy Agency’s 2010 World Energy Outlook, released yesterday, should finally stamp out the myth that renewable energies are dependent on subsidies.
By Kristjan Kjaer, Chief Executive Officer, European Wind Energy Association
“Fossil-fuel consumption subsidies amounted to $312 billion in 2009”, says the IEA, while renewable energies in the same year received just $57 billion of “government support” according to the IEA.
In other words, renewables got just $1 for every $5-6 given to fossil fuels last year. Read more »
Energy companies: draft legislation for renewable energy subsidies in Estonia is inadequate
Estonian newsNovember 10, 2010
Baltic Business News, 09.11.2010
Cuts in renewable energy subsidies that the government is currently considering are unjustifid and will create problems for Estonia in the fulfilment of its green energy consumption objectives, say the organizations that represent the power and heat companies, wind power companies and hydro energy companies. Read more »