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Resource Library Category: Spain (8 items)

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Documents presented here are not the product of nor are they necessarily endorsed by National Wind Watch. This resource library is provided to assist anyone wishing to research the issue of industrial wind power and the impacts of its development. The information should be evaluated by each reader to come to their own conclusions about the many areas of debate.


Date added:  June 27, 2011
Denmark, Economics, Germany, Scotland, Spain, U.K.Print storyE-mail story

Renewable energy and jobs: 4 studies

Source:  Various

Study of the effects on employment of public aid to renewable energy sources [Spain]

Wind energy: The case of Denmark

Economic impacts from the promotion of renewable energies: The German experience

The economic impact of renewable energy policy in Scotland and the UK

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Date added:  September 13, 2010
Denmark, Germany, Grid, Spain, U.K., U.S.Print storyE-mail story

Electricity generation by fuel, 1971-2007

Source:  International Energy Agency

From http://www.iea.org/stats/index.asp, graphs of electricity generation by fuel from 1971 to 2007 in Denmark, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States:

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Date added:  December 15, 2009
Spain, WildlifePrint storyE-mail story

Large scale risk-assessment of wind-farms on population viability of a globally endangered long-lived raptor

Source:  Carrete, Martina; Sánchez-Zapata, José; Benítez, José; Lobón, Manuel; and Donázar, José

A B S T R A C T
Wind-farms receive public and governmental support as an alternative energy source mitigating air pollution. However, they can have adverse effects on wildlife, particularly through collision with turbines. Research on wind-farm effects has focused on estimating mortality rates, behavioural changes or interspecific differences in vulnerability. Studies dealing with their effects on endangered or rare species populations are notably scarce. We tested the hypothesis that wind-farms increase extinction probability of long-lived species through increments in mortality rates. For this purpose, we evaluate potential consequences of wind-farms on the population dynamics of a globally endangered long-lived raptor in an area where the species maintains its greatest stronghold and wind-farms are rapidly increasing. Nearly one-third of all breeding territories of our model species are in wind-farm risk zones. Our intensive survey shows that wind-farms decrease survival rates of this species differently depending on individual breed- ing status. Consistent with population monitoring, population projections showed that all subpopulations and the meta-population are decreasing. However, population sizes and, therefore, time to extinction significantly decreased when wind-farm mortality was included in models. Our results represent a qualitative warning exercise showing how very low reductions in survival of territorial and non-territorial birds associated with wind-farms can strongly impact population viability of long-lived species. This highlights the need for examining long-term impacts of wind-farms rather than focusing on short-term mortality, as is often promoted by power companies and some wildlife agencies. Unlike other non-natural causes of mortality difficult to eradicate or control, wind-farm fatalities can be lowered by powering down or removing risky turbines and/or farms, and by placing them outside areas critical for endangered birds.

Biological Conservation, doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2009.07.027

Martina Carrete and José A. Donázar: Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC), La Cartuja, Sevilla, Spain; José A. Sánchez-Zapata: Department of Applied Biology, University Miguel Hernández, Orihuela, Alicante, Spain; José R. Benítez and Manuel Lobón: Colectivo Ornitológico Cigüeña Negra, Tarifa, Cádiz, Spain

Download original document: “Large scale risk-assessment of wind-farms on population viability of a globally endangered long-lived raptor”

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Real-time wind production — various regions

Source:  National Wind Watch

Note: Please be patient as this page loads — it’s pulling in a lot of data from around the world.

Australia: Daily capacity factor, production, and total demand by half-hour, by individual facilities and in total, plus annual graphs

Denmark: Current production and imports/exports (kraftwærker = power plants; windmøller = windmills; nettoudveksling = net exchange; elforbrug = electricity consumption)

Denmark: Current consumption, production, and prices

Estonia: Current production, plus graphs (“diagrams”) of past 24 hours and 7 days of six 4-Energia wind energy facilities, also webcams (total capacities: Esivere 8 MW, Pakri 18.4 MW, Tooma I 24 MW, Virtsu I-III 15 MW, Viru-Nigula 24 MW, Mockiai 12 MW, Sudenai 14 MW)

France: Quarter-hour consumption and production

Germany: Quarter-hour wind production in EnBW control area (Baden-Württemberg)

Germany: Quarter-hour wind production in 50 Hertz transmission area (northern and eastern)

Germany: Daily and monthly quarter-hour reports of predicted and actual infeed from Transpower control

Great Britain: Current, last half-hour, and last 24 hours of generation by fuel type

Great Britain: Current, weekly, monthly, yearly demand and production

Ireland: Daily quarter-hour wind generation

Portugal: Real-time wind power generation and total power demand

Spain: Real-time wind generation, with percentage of capacity and percentage of demand (may not work in all browsers)

Spain: Real-time generation from all sources (may not work in all browsers)


Alberta: Weekly wind power operational and market reports

Ontario: Daily hourly generation (scroll to bottom of table for wind plant)


Northwestern USA: Previous week, real-time 5-minute total load and wind generation, Bonneville Power Administration
BPA load and wind generation

California: Daily hourly production, CAISO
CAISO: yesterday's renewables production

North Dakota: Previous week, Basin electric Power Cooperative
Basin Electric wind generation, previous week

University of Delaware, Newark: current power output (kW) of 2,000-kW turbine

Ipswich, Massachusetts: hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly production of a 1.6-MW turbine since May 18, 2011


Falmouth, Massachusetts: hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly production of a 1.65-MW turbine since March 23, 2010


Mark Richey Woodworking, Newburyport, Massachusetts: hourly, daily, monthly production of a 600-kW turbine since June 2009

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