PowerPointPrsentation

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Joint Action by Member States for a future with
Offshore Wind Power Outcomes from the 2007 EU
Policy Workshopin Berlin
Jens BömerConsultant for International Aspects
of Wind Energy on behalf of the Federal
Environment Ministry, Germany
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Where are we today?
Source www.offshorewindenergy.org

• Offshore end of 2006
• Denmark (398 MW)
• United Kingdom (304 MW)
• Netherlands (136 MW)
• Ireland (25 MW)
• Sweden (23,3 MW)

Source EWEA
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Where do we go?
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Source www.offshorewindenergy.org
Source EWEA
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Challenges

• Today
• High costs
• Little technology experience
• Complicated consenting procedures

Source REpower Systems AG

• Tomorrow
• Grid integration
• Rules for cross-border trade
• Cumulative environmental effects

Source REpower Systems AG
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EU Policy Workshops
Informal cooperation between EU member states to
foster Offshore Wind Power Deployment

• Egmond 2004 Egmond Declaration
• Copenhagen 2005 Copenhagen Strategy
• Berlin 2007 Berlin Declaration
• Sweden 2009 ?

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Outcomes from Berlin 2007

• Exchange of information, networking
• Put EU Energy Package in more concrete terms
• Bring joint initiatives on the way
• Communication to the EU Energy Council in June
  2007

Source REpower Systems AG
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Structure

• Market and Policy
• Research and Development
• Grid Integration
• Environmental Impacts

Source Hero Lang, Bremerhaven
Source HOCHTIEF Construction AG
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Market and Policy (Selection)

• Those Member States with coastlines on the North,
  Baltic, Black and Mediterranean Seas and the
  Atlantic Ocean are encouraged to make use of
  their enormous resource of offshore wind energy
  in order to achieve their respective sectoral
  targets for electricity and to quantify this
  expected contribution in their National Action
  Plans.
• Participants call upon the Commission to consider
  a project identifying risks and barriers to the
  large scale development of offshore wind power in
  Europe.
• The results of this project should be used to
  create a European Action Plan for offshore wind
  power in Europe as proposed in the Copenhagen
  Strategy. This plan could include targets for
  capacity of offshore wind in 2020.

Source WIND-projekt GmbH
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Research and Development (Sel.)

• The Steering Committee of the recently
  established European Wind Energy Technology
  Platform (TP Wind) is asked to set up a specific
  working group on offshore wind power.
• The Commission should give high priority to
  research on technology, grid integration and
  environmental aspects of offshore wind power
  within its 7th Framework Programme, intensively
  covering environmental as well as technical
  questions.
• Offshore wind RD should also constitute a key
  priority of the European Strategic Energy
  Technology Plan which the Commission is
  developing.

Source REpower Systems AG
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Grid Integration (Selection)

• Participants generally supported the designation
  of a European coordinator on grids for northern
  European offshore wind power plants as indicated
  in the Priority Interconnection Plan.
• Grid operators, regulators and licensing
  authorities are asked to accelerate the
  implementation of projects on European
  interconnectors.
• It is recommended that a general study on
  cross-border offshore grids as specially related
  to necessary regulation is carried out, taking
  into account the results of the ongoing studies
  EWIS and TradeWind.

Source BLICKFANG Design-Büro
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Environmental Impacts (Sel.)

• It is agreed to promote the concept of a major
  scientific meeting with commissioned syntheses of
  the latest European and other data in early 2008,
  to be hosted by the UK with an international
  steering committee.
• It is agreed to initiate a programme of technical
  workshops using the Informal, International,
  Innovative model the first in the series will
  be on bird studies using radar, to be hosted in
  2007 by Germany.
• United Kingdom, Netherlands and Sweden will
  develop a proposal for a workshop of Member
  States wind farm licensing authorities to share
  examples of consenting procedures and identify
  opportunities for streamlining .

Source BMU / Christoph Edelhoff
Source MINOS-Studie
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Future steps

• EU Energy Minister Council in June
• Action Plan on Offshore Wind Power
• 4th European Policy Workshop inSweden 2009

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Find out more!

• Thank you for your attention!
• If you want to find out more, please go to
• http//www.erneuerbare-energien.de/inhalt/38773/45
  91/
• Jens Bömer
• jens.boemer_at_bmu.bund.de
• phone [phone]