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World Wind Energy Association

Unitingthe World of Wind Energywww.wwindea.org

Stefan Gsnger

Community Wind Power in the World

ISEP Community Power Conference

8 March 2012



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Stefan Gsnger

History of wind power in Europe

12th century:First wind mills in Europe, coming from Arabian countries

End of 19th century:20000 wind mills in Germany

200000 wind mills in Europe

Pioneer in Denmark: Paul la Cour

1891: electricity generation from wind

1894: hydrogen lighting system

1930s: Hermann Honnef proposes 60 MW wind generator

1950s: Ulrich Htter creates scientific basis for modern wind turbines

1957: Mhlengesetz promotes decommisioning of wind mills in Germany

1960s: preliminary stopp of research on wind technology

1970s: oil crisis renaissance begins



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Stefan Gsnger

A Community Project:

Since 1978 in operation: Tvind wind turbine (2 MW) in Denmark

www.tvindkraft.dk



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Stefan Gsnger

Big industrys Failures

GROWIAN (MAN - HEW, Schleswag, RWE):

3 MW, erected 1983, decommissioned in 1987

We need Growian (), in order to demonstrate thatit does not work.

(Gnter Kltte, RWE Board, February 1982)

FIAT/ENEL fail with 55 kW turbine:



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Stefan Gsnger Community Wind Power in the World


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Wind Power Deployment Worldwide



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Offshore Wind



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Electricity generated: 500 TWh, ~ Germanys electricity demand

Share in global electricity demand: ~ 3 %

Countries with high wind shares: Denmark 21 % Portugal 18 %

Spain 16 % Germany 10 %



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China: 2020 target increased from 20 GW (2004)to 30 GW (2004/5)

maybe to 200 GW

2015: 100 GW (according to 5-year-plan)

German Wind Energy Association: 2 % of land area enough to cover 65 % of Germanys

electricity needs (197 GW)

Indian Wind Power Association: 20 % of wind electricity by 2020

BUT:

Extension of PTC in USA unclearSpain suspended support for renewable energy



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Successful policy principles

Create level-playing field

Provide investment security

Communities have to benefit directly

Secure efficiency

Provide access for newcomers/IPPs

On national level well-designed feed-in tariffsallow communities to invest!



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Stefan Gsnger

The importance of Community Power

Source: LOCAL ACCEPTANCE OF RENEWABLE ENERGY A CASE STUDY FROM SOUTHEAST GERMANY, published 2011

Fabian David Musall* and Onno Kuik, Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University Amsterdam

Germany: Neighbours of Community Wind Farm have much more positive attitude



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Wind turbine syndrome

Mainly caused by annoyance about wind farms,

as reported by a study by Massachusetts Department of Environmental

Protection and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health

To be tackled by best practices including community ownership



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The Community Power success stories:

The pioneer: Denmark: 200000 families

Germany: 200-300000 shareholders

Community projects are known in

Australia

Canada, USA

Belgium, Denmark, France, Ireland, Luxemburg, The Netherlands, Portugal,

Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom

Japan

Latin America

South Africa



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Stefan Gsnger

WWEAs Community Power activities:

WWEC2008 Community Power in Kingston, Canada

led to first FIT legislation in North America

Working Group on Community Power was established in 2010

with members from all continents



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WWEAs Definition of Community Power

Community Power can be defined by any combination of two of the following three

elements:

Local stakeholders own the majority or all of a project

A local individual or a group of local stakeholders, whether they are farmers, cooperatives,independent power producers, financial institutions, municipalities, schools, etc., own,

immediately or eventually, the majority or all of a project.

Voting control rests with the community-based organization

A community-based organization made up of local stakeholders has the majority of the

voting rights concerning the decisions taken on the project.

The majority of social and economic benefits are distributed locally

The major part or all of the social and economic benefits are returned to the local

community.

There is a broad variety of different legal and economic forms of community power.



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11th World Wind Energy Conference

& WWEC2012 Trade Fair

Community Power Citizens Power

3-5 July 2012

www.wwec2012.net

So far almost 200 abstracts from 35 countries

See you in Bonn/Germany!


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