Europe put in a document quantity of wind energy in 2021

Europe put in 17.4 gigawatts of wind energy capability in 2021, in line with figures from trade physique WindEurope, a document quantity and an 18% improve in comparison with 2020.

Regardless of this, the Brussels-based group stated it was not sufficient to satisfy vitality and local weather objectives. The European Union, which consists of 27 international locations, put in 11 GW in 2021, far under what WindEurope says is required.

“To succeed in its 40% renewable vitality goal for 2030, the EU must construct 30 GW of latest wind a 12 months,” Giles Dickson, the CEO of WindEurope, stated in a press release Thursday.

“Nevertheless it constructed solely 11 GW final 12 months and is about to construct solely 18 GW a 12 months over the subsequent 5 years,” Dickson stated. “These low volumes undermine the Inexperienced Deal. They usually’re hurting Europe’s wind vitality provide chain.”

By 2030, the EU desires to chop web greenhouse gasoline emissions by not less than 55%. Relating to renewable sources in its vitality combine, a proposal has been made to extend the present goal of not less than 32% by 2030, to not less than 40%.

WindEurope pointed to allowing as being a hurdle for the sector’s growth going ahead, describing it as “the principle bottleneck.”

Thursday’s report comes after a letter from WindEurope to the European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen that stated “the principles and procedures that public authorities use to allow wind vitality tasks are too prolonged and complicated.”

“Europe is just not allowing something just like the volumes of latest wind farms that you just and nationwide Governments wish to construct,” the letter, dated Feb. 22, stated.

Signed by the CEOs of ENERCON, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, GE Renewable Vitality, Vestas, Nordex and WindEurope, the correspondence stated the EU might, amongst different issues, “drive a simplification of allowing processes at nationwide stage.”

Final 12 months, onshore installations in Europe hit 14 GW, with the offshore sector including 3.4 GW. Wind farms in Europe produced 437 terawatt-hours of electrical energy, assembly 15% of electrical energy demand within the EU and U.Ok.

The largest marketplace for offshore set up was the U.Ok., the place 2.3 GW was put in. Sweden led the best way in onshore wind, with 2.1 GW coming on-line there.

Capability refers back to the most quantity of electrical energy installations can produce, not what they’re essentially producing.