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The UK Offshore Wind Industry – Hidden Obstacles to Growth---Aarkstore Enterprise Market Research Aggregation

Summary

Wind is one of the fastest growing renewable technologies with an annual growth rate of more than 28% in the last 10 years. By the end of 2007 global wind installed capacity reached above 94000 MW. Most of the global wind capacity at present is installed onshore but development of onshore wind capacity is constrained by social limitations like land availability especially in the industrialized nations. Therefore, offshore wind farms have been completed, or are planned, in countries such as Denmark, Netherlands, Ireland, Sweden, Germany, and the UK.

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Table of Contents : 
Viewpoint 5
2.1 Summary 5
3 The UK Offshore Wind Industry – Hidden Obstacles to Growth 6
3.1 Introduction 6
3.2 Offshore Wind in the UK 6
3.3 Hidden Obstacles to Growth 6
3.4 Conclusion 10
4 Recent Developments 11
4.1 May 04, 2008: Shell Pulls Out Of UK's Wind Power Project 11
4.2 Apr 30, 2008: Enertrag Submits Application To Develop Wind Farm In Hempnall 13
4.3 Apr 07, 2008: E.ON Submits Application For 300 MW Offshore Wind Farm 14
4.4 Apr 03, 2008: SSE Announces Renewable Plans 15
4.5 Mar 26, 2008: SSE Plans To Double Renewable Energy Output By 2013 16
4.6 Mar 14, 2008: Statkraft And Catamount Announce Construction Of Blaengwen Wind Farm 19
4.7 Mar 07, 2008: Essex Planning Board Propose Bylaw To Prohibit Commercial Wind Power Projects 20
4.8 Feb 28, 2008: UK Minister Approves Two Wind Farms In South Yorkshire And North Lincolnshire 20
4.9 Feb 25, 2008: UK To Fund GBP400 Million For Low-Carbon Activities 21
4.10 Feb 07, 2008: MCT To Install Wind Turbine In Northern Ireland And Wales 22
4.11 Jan 26, 2008: Bullfrog Opens Ravenswood Wind Turbine Farm In London 22
4.12 Jan 22, 2008: Britain To Build Wind Turbines To Meet EU's Target 23
4.13 Jan 18, 2008: EU To Set 15% Renewable Energy Target To UK 23
4.14 Jan 17, 2008: Lyse To Build Wind Power Plant In North Sea 24
4.15 Jan 16, 2008: SSE Receives Consent For Fairburn Wind Farm 24
4.16 Dec 17, 2007: SSE Receives Consent For Achany Wind Farm In Sutherland 24
4.17 Dec 17, 2007: Two Wind Farms To Open In Somerset, Pennsylvania 25
4.18 Dec 10, 2007: Wind Energy To Power Britain By 2020 25
4.19 Dec 03, 2007: DONG To Invest In UK Offshore Wind Farms 26
4.20 Aug 29, 2007: E.ON UK Plans To Build Major Wind Farm Off The Yorkshire Coast 26
5 Appendix 28
5.1 Methodology 28
5.2 Definitions 29
5.3 Contact Us 29
5.4 About GlobalData 29
5.5 Disclaimer 29

1.1 List of Figures
Figure 1: Cost of Generation of Renewable Energy Sources, US Cents/KWh 8
Figure 2: Methodology 28
 
 
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40 % LESS than 30 Years Ago?

The Koyoto and Bali conferences are advocating a reduction of CO2 emissions to a level 40 percent less than in 1990, by 2020.
So here's my question to all sides, GW fearers and GWdoubters.

Let's have some hard numbers as to what the above means.

Population in 1990
Population in 2020
World's energy use from oil and coal in 1990.
Assuming no quality of life change for 1st world, and a slight increase in QOL for 3rd world, projected energy use in 2020.

Where do you get that energy at 40 % less output than in 1990? Coal and Oil power plants that are an almost science fiction like order of magnitude cleaner? Or, decommission x number of coal plants, and build 2x number of nuclear plants to
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Post in a separate question so we can all see these answers..
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Sure, it can be done. Practically and affordably. All your questions are answered in the second link below. It's a little long, because it looks at this from every angle.

Hundreds of scientists and economists have been working on a plan for this for years. Of course it includes large amounts of nuclear power, along with solar and wind.

First a news article:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,481085,00.html

And the plan itself.

http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg3.htm

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