>Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 17:19:57 -0400
>From: Tom Gray <tomgray at igc.org>
>Subject: [windenergyweekly] Wind Energy Weekly #997
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>EWEA, GREENPEACE RAISE TARGET:
>12% BY 2020 FOR GLOBAL WIND
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>On May 28, Greenpeace and the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA)
>released a global blueprint for providing 12% of the world's future
>electricity from wind by 2020. The report was issued to show governments
>meeting at the Bali preparatory meeting for the World Summit of Sustainable
>Development that the only thing that stands in the way of a renewable
>energy revolution is the lack of political will.
>
>"Governments coming to the table to sort out the energy needs for the
>future through the Earth Summit will fail in their mandate if they ignore
>the industrial potential of wind power. Twelve percent is [equivalent to]
>the total amount of electricity used today in Europe, or twice that [used
>in] China," said Corin Millais of Greenpeace. "Wind power works, it's time
>for politicians to do the same. The only barrier is political blindness,
>and a woeful ignorance of what wind power can deliver for the world. If
>governments ceased their perverse subsidies to fossil fuels and nuclear
>power--$250-300 billion world-wide a year--we would have clean affordable
>energy for the world."
>
>"Wind power has established itself as the fastest growing energy source in
>the world. The growth has been impressive, but this is only the
>beginning," said Christian Kjaer of EWEA. "Wind Force 12 shows that there
>are no technical barriers or resource limits preventing the world from
>enjoying the dual benefit of affordable energy and a sustainable
>environment. The technology is available and the resource will never run
>out. The wind industry is ready and capable of meeting this target, we
>have the resources and capabilities, yet need stronger political signals to
>deliver."
>
>The "Wind Force 12" report follows an earlier study, "Wind Force 10,"
>released in 1999 by EWEA, Greenpeace International, and the Forum for
>Energy and Development, that argued that a target of 10% of global
>electricity from wind by 2020 is achievable.
>
>The report was endorsed by Mark Moody Stuart, former Chairman of Shell and
>Co-Chair of the G8 Renewable Energy Task Force. In the foreword to Wind
>Force 12, Stuart said, "For wind and other renewable energy sources to
>spread worldwide, we have to ensure that the international finance
>institutions and export credit agencies are as willing to make finance
>available for renewable energy projects as they have been for what was
>conventional power. . . [W]e also have to ensure that market-distorting
>subsidies are removed."
>
>According to the report, by 2020, wind power could deliver:
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>* 12% of global electricity demand, assuming a doubling of global
>demand,
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>* Creation of 1.475 million jobs,
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>* Cumulative carbon dioxide savings of 11,768 million tons, and
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>* 1,261,000 MW wind energy capacity, generating 3,093 billion kWh,
>equivalent to the current electricity use of all of Europe, twice that of
>China, two-thirds of North America, or three times that of Latin America.
>
>EWEA reports that already wind power worldwide employs around 70,000
>people, has an annual turnover of more than U.S. $5 billion, has been
>growing at an average rate of 40% annually over the past five years, and
>meets the electricity needs of around 14 million households, more than 35
>million people. By the end of 2001, installed global wind power was almost
>25,000 MW, it said.
>
>For more information, contact Greenpeace's Corin Millais, phone +61 409 812
>641, or EWEA's Christian Kjaer, phone +45 21 23 23 66, e-mail
>christian.kjaer at ewea.org . Wind Force 12 can be downloaded from
>http://www.greenpeace.org or http://www.ewea.org .