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Bureaucratic hurdles thwart wind farm permit applicants and plans
Although Greece is one of the windiest countries in Europe, wind farms have been slow in coming. The country gets just 3 percent of its power from wind, compared to 30 percent in Denmark.
In 2007 125 megawatts of wind power were added to the arsenal, raising the total to 870 MW (0.93 percent of the world’s total), produced from 1,096 wind generators, widening the gap Greece must close before it meets its targets under the Kyoto Protocol.
According to a European . . .
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Greece: is there a future for windpower?
According to meteorology experts, Greek wind farms will need to provide 6,000 to 9,000 megawatts to meet EU-imposed renewable energy targets: would equal three-quarters of the the current generating capacity from all sources. Concerns over global warming.
Wind farms totalling between 6,000 and 9,000 megawatts — up to more than three-quarters of the country’s current generating capacity from all sources of energy — will have to be established if Greece is to meet its European Union emissions-cutting targets, according to meteorology . . .
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Quiet revolution in Greek alternative energy
Applications for wind farms to generate 34,000 megawatts + of electricity is being consideration by Greek energy authorities. Is it pie in the sky?
Applications for wind farms that would generate more than 34,000 megawatts of electricity — almost three times the country’s current generating capacity from all forms of energy — are being considered by the Regulatory Authority for Energy (RAE).
At a time when the European Union is looking to strengthen its alternative energy policies and slash greenhouse gas emissions, . . .
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Debating the merits of energy from air
The tiny Greek island of Serifos, a popular tourist destination, depends on its postcard views of sandy beaches, Cycladic homes and sunsets that blend sea and sky into a clean wash of color. So when a mining and energy company floated a plan earlier this year to build 87 industrial wind turbines on more than a third of the island, the Serifos mayor, Angeliki Synodinou, called it her “worst nightmare.”
She imagined supersize wind towers looming over the island, destroying romantic . . .
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Wind turbines whip up landscape concerns on Greek islands
Under pressure to cut reliance on pollution-generating fossil fuels for energy production, Greece is stepping up plans to build wind farms on some of its picture-perfect islands that locals fear could scare off tourism.
Since January, a number of Aegean islands have been earmarked to host the massive, modern windmills — islands of the sort used in the Greek tourist board’s TV advertisement showing young couples dancing on white-washed rooftops against a red-and-gold sunset.
The image draws millions of visitors to Greek . . .
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Wind farms to be built on Greek islands
Under pressure to cut reliance on pollution-generating fossil fuels for energy production, Greece is stepping up plans to build wind farms on some of its picture-perfect islands that locals fear could scare off tourism.
Since January, a number of Aegean islands have been earmarked to host the massive, modern windmills — islands of the sort used in the Greek tourist board’s TV advertisement showing young couples dancing on white-washed rooftops against a red-and-gold sunset.
The image draws millions of visitors to Greek . . .
Las eólicas, rechazadas en las islas griegas [Wind turbines, rejected in the Greek islands]
Varios proyectos de creación de parques eólicos en las islas griegas del Mar Egeo provocan la cólera de los habitantes, que temen repercusiones negativas para el medio ambiente y el turismo.
‘No queremos eólicas que pasen de los 70 metros de altura, no nos oponemos a la energía verde, pero debemos preservar el paisaje de nuestras islas, que es único’, dice a AFP Dimitris Bailas, delegado de Gobierno de las Cícladas (sureste), uno de los destinos preferidos de los turistas.
Grecia, obligada . . .
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Voltalia in 258 mw wind farm venture in Greece
French renewable energy company Voltalia said it has agreed to form a wind farm venture in Greece, Parivolt, with a local partner.
The first project by Parivolt, in which Voltalia has a majority stake, relates to the development of 20 wind farms with a total capacity of 258 megawatts.
Further projects are likely by the end of the year, it said.
Financial details were not disclosed.
Voltalia did not name the local partner.
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Greek wind power farms face protest
Greek environmental groups urged the government on Monday not to grant licenses for wind power parks on two Aegean islands, claiming they would damage the environment and affect income from tourism.
Heavily reliant on fossil fuels, Greece wants renewable energy to cover as much as 20 percent of its overall energy consumption by 2010, with wind parks earmarked for the lion’s share of green power.
Greece’s Regulatory Authority for Energy (RAE) is evaluating two separate applications to construct . . .
Conservationists fight to keep wind farms off Skyros
Residents on the remote Greek island of Skyros are engaged in a last-ditch fight to prevent the construction of one of the world’s largest wind farms on a protected nature reserve.
The plans have pitched the country’s largest landowner, the Orthodox Church, against the islanders. Conservationists, echoing the debate across Europe, are split between those keen to expand Greece’s renewable energy production and those who argue the destruction in this case would too great.
Skyros, in the northern Aegean is a breeding . . .
