Netherlands First To Hold Subsidy-Free Wind Power Auction
The Netherlands will open bids this week for 700 megawatts of offshore wind power. It hopes that some or all of the bids will be for subsidy-free power.
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33,000 More Offshore Wind Power Jobs in Germany by 2021, Study Finds
How about the U.S.? (OK, let’s not go there today.) The news: A new study Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC), Volle Kraft aus Hochseewind (“Full power from offshore wind”), has found that Germany will have a not-so-tiny 33,000 jobs in the offshore wind power sector by 2021! That’s 18,000 more than in 2010. … [continued]
Renewable Energy in Germany Going to Get a Boost from Wind Energy Superhighway
I was in Germany a little more than a week ago and can tell you from what I saw that Germany (or, at least, Northeast Germany) is a wind turbine paradise. Wind turbines are everywhere it seems (between cities that is).
Germany is the clear wind power leader in Europe with 27,214 MW of installed wind power capacity. (Spain is second with 20,676 MW installed.)
But, even in Germany, wind power could benefit from a better transmission network. Of course, German leaders recognize that and are doing something about it — they are planning to build a wind energy superhighway.
