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Germany seizing market share
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Germany seizing market share
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HE COVER story of this edition of Renewable Energy Focus puts the spotlight on Germany’s clean energy market, particularly its dominance in the offshore wind power sector. Rachel Parkes explains (page 30).
The coverage coincides with the recent release of “Wind Regains Momentum in 2015 and Industry Outlook Improves,” an industry report from research and consulting firm GlobalData. According to the study, global annual offshore wind installations are expected to more than double, from 1,681 MW in 2014 to 3,903 MW in 2015. More specifically, the report reveals that Germany is on pace to become the world’s leading market for annual offshore wind turbine installations in 2015, with the country set to add 2,071 MW this year. That’s an almost fourfold increase from the 529 MW added in 2014. “Germany’s huge increase in offshore installations is attributable to several offshore wind projects scheduled to come online in 2015,” said Ankit Mathur, GlobalData’s practice head for power. By comparison, additions from the United Kingdom are expected to remain relatively steady, decreasing marginally from 813 MW in 2014 to 801 MW in 2015. Furthermore, the UK is projected to slip down to third place in the rankings, as China surges into second position with 817 MW in 2015. “China is also planning an array of offshore wind projects this year, which will see it overtake the UK for annual installations,” Mathur added. The strong projections for 2015 mark a continuation of the momentum generated last year. According to the Germany Wind Energy Association (BWE), the German market for offshore wind energy projects broke through the 1 GW barrier in 2014. By the end of last year, 258 offshore wind turbines in the German North and
Baltic Seas with a total capacity of 1,049.2 MW fed into the grid. Of this amount, 142 offshore wind turbines provided 528.9 MW of new capacity to the grid. This represents more than a doubling of the capacity increase of the previous year, according to GlobalData. In addition to the grid-connected offshore wind turbines, the construction of a further 268 turbines with a capacity of 1,218.1 MW was completed in 2014, but these had not been fully grid-connected by the end of the year. The cumulated capacity of the 285 offshore turbines installed by the end of 2014 — but not hooked up to the grid — amounted to 1,303.1 MW. Industry observers say the one-GW milestone is a direct result of investment in the sector. “In 2015 we are expecting up to 2 GW of offshore wind capacity to be newly connected to the grid, and by the end of 2015 we expect to see a total of some 3 GW installed capacity online,” said Norbert Giese, chairman of the VDMA steering committee for the offshore wind industry and board member of the German Offshore Wind Energy Foundation. “This corresponds to an investment of 10 billion euros in the domestic market of the German offshore wind industry.” The European wind energy industry as a whole installed more new capacity than gas and coal combined in 2014. Across the 28 Member States, the wind industry connected a total of 11,791 MW to the grid, with coal and gas adding 3,305 MW and 2,338 MW, respectively. Germany and the UK accounted for 59.5% of total EU wind energy installations in 2014, installing 5,279MW and 1,736MW, respectively.
May/June 2015 | Renewable Energy Focus
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Editorial
PUBLISHER AND E D I T O R -AT- L A R G E
David Hopwood [email protected] Tel: +44 (0)1865 843648 Fax: +44 (0)1865 843973 www.renewableenergyfocus.com US EDITOR
Reginald Tucker E D I TO R I A L C O N S U LTA N T A N D C O N T R I B U TO R
Gail Rajgor gail.rajgor@ renewableenergyfocus.com Tel: +44 (0)1986 784336 F U E L C E L L S A N D E N E R GY S TO R A G E
Steve Barrett C O N T E N T D E V E LO P M E N T M A N A G E R
Libi Israeli P R O D U C T I O N S U P P O RT M A N A G E R
Lin Lucas [email protected] Tel: +44 (0)1865 843009 Fax: +44 (0)1865 843973 R E G U L A R C O N T R I B U TO R S :
David Appleyard, Paula Mints, Sarosh Bana, Joyce Laird, Andrew Mourant, Rachel Parkes PRESS RELEASES
We welcome your press releases and announcements. Please send your news, company announcements and PR to press_releases@ renewableenergyfocus.com. We respectfully regret that we can’t acknowledge receipt, or confirm whether or not we can use any editorial material in the magazine or on the website. F E AT U R E A RT I C L E S
We accept unsolicited commissions both for the magazine and the website, but please approach the editor/ assistant editor in advance with ideas/ synopsis for your proposed article. Please read the magazine in the first instance for an idea of the content we publish. K E Y PA RT N E R : International Solar Energy Society (ISES) Wiesentalstr. 50 79115 Freiburg, Germany Tel: +49 761 45906 0 Fax: +49 761 45906 99 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.ises.org
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Germany seizing market share
T
HE COVER story of this edition of Renewable Energy Focus puts the spotlight on Germany’s clean energy market, particularly its dominance in the offshore wind power sector. Rachel Parkes explains (page 30).
The coverage coincides with the recent release of “Wind Regains Momentum in 2015 and Industry Outlook Improves,” an industry report from research and consulting firm GlobalData. According to the study, global annual offshore wind installations are expected to more than double, from 1,681 MW in 2014 to 3,903 MW in 2015. More specifically, the report reveals that Germany is on pace to become the world’s leading market for annual offshore wind turbine installations in 2015, with the country set to add 2,071 MW this year. That’s an almost fourfold increase from the 529 MW added in 2014. “Germany’s huge increase in offshore installations is attributable to several offshore wind projects scheduled to come online in 2015,” said Ankit Mathur, GlobalData’s practice head for power. By comparison, additions from the United Kingdom are expected to remain relatively steady, decreasing marginally from 813 MW in 2014 to 801 MW in 2015. Furthermore, the UK is projected to slip down to third place in the rankings, as China surges into second position with 817 MW in 2015. “China is also planning an array of offshore wind projects this year, which will see it overtake the UK for annual installations,” Mathur added. The strong projections for 2015 mark a continuation of the momentum generated last year. According to the Germany Wind Energy Association (BWE), the German market for offshore wind energy projects broke through the 1 GW barrier in 2014. By the end of last year, 258 offshore wind turbines in the German North and
Baltic Seas with a total capacity of 1,049.2 MW fed into the grid. Of this amount, 142 offshore wind turbines provided 528.9 MW of new capacity to the grid. This represents more than a doubling of the capacity increase of the previous year, according to GlobalData. In addition to the grid-connected offshore wind turbines, the construction of a further 268 turbines with a capacity of 1,218.1 MW was completed in 2014, but these had not been fully grid-connected by the end of the year. The cumulated capacity of the 285 offshore turbines installed by the end of 2014 — but not hooked up to the grid — amounted to 1,303.1 MW. Industry observers say the one-GW milestone is a direct result of investment in the sector. “In 2015 we are expecting up to 2 GW of offshore wind capacity to be newly connected to the grid, and by the end of 2015 we expect to see a total of some 3 GW installed capacity online,” said Norbert Giese, chairman of the VDMA steering committee for the offshore wind industry and board member of the German Offshore Wind Energy Foundation. “This corresponds to an investment of 10 billion euros in the domestic market of the German offshore wind industry.” The European wind energy industry as a whole installed more new capacity than gas and coal combined in 2014. Across the 28 Member States, the wind industry connected a total of 11,791 MW to the grid, with coal and gas adding 3,305 MW and 2,338 MW, respectively. Germany and the UK accounted for 59.5% of total EU wind energy installations in 2014, installing 5,279MW and 1,736MW, respectively.
May/June 2015 | Renewable Energy Focus
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