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Here is some information regarding Germany in that most of the newly installed projects are for small MW's yet the total is very large. Could this have something to do with a favorable treatment? Makes you wonder what might happen if this was done here.

-----Original Message-----
From: Carel deWinkel [mailto:Carel.Dewinkel@state.or.us]
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 5:17 PM
Subject: Germany's small(er) wind farms


Interesting information on what a good production based incentive can do!
Note that Germany is about the size of Montana or about 1.4 times the area of Oregon.

>>> Paul Gipe <pgipe@igc.org> 2/25/2005 4:01:31 PM >>>

I was recently asked what % of German wind is under 10 MW. The answer is--most of it.


In December 2004, Germans installed 402 MW. Of that only 56 MW or 14% was greater than 10 MW. In otherwords, 86% of installed capacity in December was less than 10 MW. What can you read into this? Most importantly that the stunning development of wind energy has been done in small clusters. We've been saying this based on physical observation but the stats show it as well. In December the biggest project was eleven 2 MW turbines or 22 MW in the state of Brandenburg--near Berlin. Wow. There have been bigger projects and some turbines have been added in small groups to existing projects so that the cumulative size of the project is greater than 10 MW. Nevertheless, a large part of the 16,000 MW in Germany is in small clusters.


--Neue Energie, 02/2005, seite 104

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