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Open call for wind energy investment support
November 24, 2010 EWPA's blog - etea
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 »
Three wind energy keywords from the Head of TSO
November 23, 2010 EWPA's blog - etea
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
November 10, 2010 EWPA's blog - etea
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: the draft legislation for renewable energy subsidies in Estonia is inadequate
November 8, 2010 EWPA's blog - etea
The Estonian Power and Heat Association (EPHA), the Estonian Wind Power Association (EWPA), and the non-profit organisation Eesti Veskivaramu, which unites hydro energy companies, have found that unjustified cuts that are planned in renewable energy subsidies will create problems for Estonia in the fulfilment of its green energy consumption objectives. The amended draft law for renewable energy subsidies has been compiled based on the inaccurate conclusions of Competition Board analysis. A joint declaration of the associations, which includes companies that have invested almost eight billion EEK in renewable energy, says that the draft law does not take into consideration the rational proposals for amendments by the market participants. Read more »
EWEA blog: Wind farms are not the only ones who need financial support
August 19, 2010 EWPA's blog - etea
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
August 2, 2010 EWPA's blog - praktikant
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
June 28, 2010 EWPA's blog - etea
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
June 15, 2010 EWPA's blog - etea
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 »