欧州風力エネルギー協会(EWEA)、EU圏の風力の設備容量が累計100GWに達したと発表: ソフトエネルギー

欧州風力エネルギー協会(EWEA)、EU圏の風力の設備容量が累計100GWに達したと発表

　欧州風力エネルギー協会　European Wind Energy Association(EWEA)がまとめたところによると、EU圏の風力の設備容量が累計100GWに達したととのことです。同時に公開されたグラフを見ると、1995年の統計開始から、累計50GWに達するまで、2007年までの、１２年が必要であったのに、残りの50GWを積み増すのにたった、５年しかかかっていないことがわかります。風車も大型化し、効率よく配置できるようになったことがわかります。

　100GWは、日本的表現では容量１億キロワットに相当し、5700万世帯分の電力消費量をまかなうことができるとのことです。仮に1基を2.5MWとすると4000基に相当します。また、原子炉の39基分、石炭火力発電所62基分、ガス火力発電所にして52基分に相当するそうです。

　また同時に公開された、トップ10の風力発電所ランキングリストでは、

No.1 Fantanele and Cogealac(Romania) 600MW(GE 2.5MW機*240基)
No.2 Whitelee(UK) 539MW(Siemens 2.5MW機*215基)
No.3 Viking(UK) 371MW(Siemens 3.6MW機*103基)

　となどが発表されました。リーマニアにあるFantanele and Cogealac風力発電所が地上としては、最大規模と初めて知りました。

プレスリリース / European Wind Energy Association(EWEA),27 September 2012
・EU reaches 100 GW wind power milestone

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"The European Union has passed the milestone of 100 gigawatt (GW) of installed wind power capacity, according to the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA).
100 GW of wind power can generate electricity over a year to meet the total consumption of 57 million households, equivalent to the power production of 39 nuclear power plants.
It took the European wind energy sector some twenty years to get the first 10 GW grid connected. It only needed 13 years to add an additional 90 GW. Half of the total European wind power capacity has been installed over the past six years.

"It would require burning 72 million tonnes of coal annually in coal fired power plants to match Europe's annual wind energy production. Loading that amount of coal on trains would require 750,000 wagons with a combined length of 11,500 kilometres - the distance from Brussels to Buenos Aires, Argentina," said Christian Kjaer, CEO of EWEA.

"Despite only utilising a tiny fraction of Europe's vast domestic wind energy resources, wind power is having a substantial impact on Europe's energy security and environment, and benefits us hugely in creating green jobs and technology exports", said Kjaer.

Recent wind turbine installations contributing to the 100 GW milestone include:

•Anholt offshore wind farm, 400 MW developed by DONG off the coast of Denmark;
•Linowo, 48 MW developed by EDF Energies Nouvelles Polska in Poland;
•Ausumgaard, 12 MW developed by a private landowner in Denmark (west Jutland);
•Akoumia, 7.2 MW developed by Greek power company PPCR on the island of Crete.

For a list of Europe's largest onshore wind farms see here.
[ http://www.ewea.org/fileadmin/ewea_documents/
documents/publications/statistics/
Ten_biggest_wind_farms_in_Europe.pdf ]

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100 GW of wind power can produce the same amount of electricity over a year as:

• 62 coal power plants, or
• 39 nuclear power plants, or
• 52 gas power plants.

To produce the same amount of electricity as 100 GW of wind turbines in a year you would have to:

• Mine, transport and burn 72 million tonnes of coal, at a cost of €4,983 million, and emit 219.5 Mt of CO2, or
• Extract, transport and burn 42.4 million cubic meters of gas, at a cost of €7,537 million, and emit 97.8 Mt of CO2.
.......... "