Le Royaume Uni décide de se lancer TRES massivement dans l'éolien offshore ! (33000 MW à horizon 2020 !!!)

Dimanche 9 décembre 2007

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Plan du gouvernement britannique : la totalité des foyers alimentés en électricité d'origine éolienne d'ici 2020. 7000 éoliennes offshore. Un vent d'énergie propre et durable souffle vraiment fort au pays de Shakespeare ! Comme le souligne Nick Bau des Amis de la Terre, c'est une formidable opportunité pour l'emploi et pour booster l'économie. God save the wind !

Huge expansion for wind turbines, BBC, 9 décembre 2007
Business Secretary John Hutton says he wants to open up British seas to allow enough new turbines - up to 7,000 - to power all UK homes by the year 2020. He acknowledged "it is going to change our coastline", but said the issue of climate change was "not going away". The thrust of the idea was backed by Tory Alan Duncan: "We're an island nation. There's a lot of wind around." Mr Duncan added, on BBC One's Politics Show: "We should use that offshore capacity for generating electricity that's clean and secure. "So yes, I think it's inevitable and a good thing that there will be more offshore wind." (...) Friends of the Earth's [Les Amies de la Terre] renewable energy campaigner, Nick Rau, said the group welcomed the government's announcement. "The potential power that could be generated by this industry is enormous," he said. "Making Britain a world leader in this form of energy will create jobs, boost the economy and help put Britain at the forefront in the battle to combat climate change." (...) - Suite : BBC

Voir aussi :

> Big move towards wind power being planned - Reuters
"(...) The secretary of state for business, John Hutton, will announce on Monday that he will open up the seas around the country to wind farms in a big renewable energy initiative and a reversal from a previous push towards nuclear power. (...) Hutton will identify sites in the waters for wind farms to produce 25 gigawatts (GW) of electricity by 2020, in addition the 8 GW already planned. (...) The British arm of Germany utility E.ON is developing a giant battery to store wind power"

> UK govt to unveil plans to expand offshore wind energy - Forbes
> Giant offshore wind farms to supply half of UK power - Times On Line
> Offshore wind to power every British home by 2020 - EnergyCurrent
> Wind farm plans to power every home - Guardian

Britain's wind power revolution
Hutton's dramatic [spectaculaire] policy shift signals less reliance [confiance] on nuclear energy. Offshore farms could provide all UK homes with electricity within 13 years
http://environment.independent.co.uk/green_living/article3236132.ece
http://www.independent.co.uk

Geoffrey Lean, Brian Brady and Jonathan Owen

Published: 09 December 2007

Britain is to embark on a wind power revolution that will produce enough electricity to power every home in the country, ministers will reveal tomorrow. The Independent on Sunday has learnt that, in an astonishing U-turn [Oui, vraiment !], the Secretary of State for Business, John Hutton, will announce that he is opening up the seas around Britain to wind farms in the biggest ever renewable energy initiative. Only weeks ago he was resisting a major expansion of renewable sources, on the grounds that it would interfere with plans to build new nuclear power stations. (...) Mr Hutton's announcement, which will be made at a conference in Berlin tomorrow, will identify sites in British waters for enough wind farms to produce 25 gigawatts (GW) of electricity by 2020, in addition to the 8GW already planned – enough to meet the needs of all the country's homes. It means that within only eight years, Britain's offshore wind industry will be twice the size of that of any other nation in the world.

Suite : http://environment.independent.co.uk/green_living/article3236132.ece

Des nouvelles comme celle-là, on en veut tous les jours !

> Germany, Denmark and Sweden intensify cooperation in offshore wind energy deployment
http://www.bmu.de/english/current_press_releases/pm/40570.php

> Le premier parc éolien "offshore" d'Allemagne verra le jour en 2009
http://www.romandie.com/infos/news2/071205170332.83voy9i6.asp

> Siemens livrera 50 turbines éoliennes à l'Espagne
http://www.enerzine.com/3/3497+Siemens-livrera-50-turbines-eoliennes-a-l-Espagne+.html

> Des éoliennes flottent au large des côtes italiennes
http://www.enerzine.com/3/3616+Des-eoliennes-flottent-au-large-des-cotes-italiennes+.html

> L'Inde, 4ème marché mondial pour l'énergie éolienne
http://www.enerzine.com/3/3568+L-Inde-4eme-producteur-mondial-d-energie-eoliennne+.html

> India has huge wind power capacity
http://www.ndtvprofit.com/homepage/storybusinessnew.asp?id=42203&template=&cache=12/9/2007%201:51:25%20PM

> L'interconnexion des fermes éoliennes comme stratégie de développement de l'éolien Une équipe du département de génie civil et environnemental de Stanford University s'est penchée sur les bénéfices que pourrait apporter l'interconnexion des fermes éoliennes se trouvant dans une même zone géographique. (...) Le réseau des fermes éoliennes est, comme le reste du réseau électrique américain, peu interconnecté. Or, raccorder les fermes éoliennes entre elles en tête de distribution permet, selon les auteurs, d'améliorer les performances de l'ensemble de ces fermes. En effet, les régimes de vents variant d'un site à l'autre, l'absence de vent sur un site peut alors être compensée par la présence de vent sur un autre, ce qui augmente les durées opérationnelles du système. (...)
http://www.bulletins-electroniques.com/actualites/52104.htm

> C. L. Archer et M. Z. Jacobson, Supplying baseload power and reducing transmission requirements by interconnecting wind farms, Journal of Applied Meterology and Climate, 46 (11) Novembre 2007 - http://www.stanford.edu/~lozej/aj07_jamc.pdf

> "Connecting wind farms can make a more reliable and cheaper power source", 11/2007 - Science Daily
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071121144907.htm

> Démonstration de la faisabilité technique d'un système de production d'électricité 100% renouvelable (KombiKraftWerk)
http://objectifterre.over-blog.org/article-13530946.html