Wind Power News: Sweden
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Climate change plea from tribe of herders who face extinction
In another threat, wind turbines and hydroelectric dams have sprung up in reindeer herding areas that had been protected, cutting grazing and forcing the Sami off their traditional land.
Olav Mathias-Eira is a reindeer-herder. So was his father. And his father’s father. He is a member of the Sami community, one of the largest indigenous groups remaining in Europe, and his family have been herding reindeer in the same stretch of the Norwegian Arctic since the …
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Dong Energy to build 30 MW wind farm in Sweden
Dong Energy AS, Denmark’s majority state-owned, largest power and heat generator, said it has decided to build and operate a 30 MW wind farm in Krokom, Sweden.
The total investment is seen at 275 mln dkr.
The Storrun wind farm, which will consist of 12 2.5 MW wind turbines, is scheduled to commence production at the end of 2009.
‘The decision to build the Storrun wind farm is part of Dong Energy’s strategy to expand within renewable energy …
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Blade flew 40 meters [Vingen flög 40 meter]
Ett flera ton tungt rotorblad lossnade från vindkraftverk
[The several-ton rotor blade broke off from a wind turbine last Friday morning on Gotland. “People walk with their dogs in this area!” said Hardy Pettersson of Nãs. The blade created a meter-deep crater. The turbine is one of a group of nine installed in 2002. They are Vestas V52 models rated at 850 kW. Each rotor blade is 25 meters long and weights several tons. The detached …
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Renewable energy is not an end in itself
Sir, In the climate initiative announced last week by the European Commission, a difficult requirement for many countries will be the separate goal for the share of renewable energy. This goal will lead to perverse consequences when combined with the goal for the total emissions of carbon dioxide. Requiring an increase of the share of renewables with given total emissions of carbon dioxide is the same as requiring an increase in energy consumption.
For example, many …
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Sweden handed toughest green target
Under the European Commission’s proposals, each European Union state has its own legally binding target for increasing the share of renewables, such as wind and solar power, in its energy mix.
At the top of the scale, Sweden, which already generates most of its electricity from nuclear and hydro-electric power, is being asked to raise renewables to 49 per cent of the country’s overall energy use. At the lower end of the scale, Belgium, Cyprus, the …
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New wind power goals: More windmills may be on Sweden’s horizon
Writing in Friday’s Dagens Nyheter, the Swedish Energy Agency’s Director-General Thomas Korsfeldt and project manager Klas Tennberg say Sweden needs 6000 new wind power plants in order to reach European Union renewable energy goals.
When it comes to wind power, Sweden’s current annual output is 1.4 terawatts an hour from 800 plants. The national Energy Agency suggests a goal of 30 TWh by 2020. That’s trippling the goal currently in place.
There are a few …
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Sweden turns to a promising, but flawed, power source
MALMO, Sweden: Steadying himself on the heaving foredeck of an inspection ship recently, his face flecked by spray, Arne Floderus pronounced it a good day for his new offshore wind farm.
A 30-mile-an-hour wind was twirling the fingerlike blades of a turbine 380 feet above his head. Around him, a field of turbines rotated in a synchronized ballet that, when fully connected to an electrical grid, would generate enough power to light 60,000 nearby houses.
“We’ve created …
Vattenfall, Sveaskog say form wind power venture
Swedish utility Vattenfall and forest owner Sveaskog said on Friday they plan to join forces to build up to 550 wind farms in southern Sweden.
The firms said the agreement concerned land in Halland, Vastra Gotaland, Kronoberg, Kalmar and Blekinge counties and could result in plants with a total 1,500 megawatts.
“That is 40 percent more than any other wind power project in Sweden. The 4 TWh (per year) in which the investments could result correspond to …
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Sweden's SCA, Norway's Statkraft in $2.4 billion wind power venture
Swedish package and paper products company Svenska Cellulosa AB and Norwegian power company Statkraft Friday said they would invest 16 billion kronor (€1.73 billion; US$2.4 billion) in wind power in northern Sweden.
The companies said the wind power venture would involve production of 2,800 gigawatt hours, or GWh, of wind power electricity a year, accounting for between two to three percent of Sweden’s electricity production.
The joint venture will consist of around 400 windmills in seven wind …
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Industry Minister: building wind farms 'must be made easier'
Winning planning consent for wind farms must be made easier, the government has said. Objections by local residents and councils can delay projects by several years.
Industry Minister Maud Olofsson is now demanding a change to the law:
“We cannot have lots of cases in the courts all the time. Fundamentally, we need a planning law that is easier and quicker,” she told SVT.
The government is to set up an inquiry to carry out a review of …
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