Wind energy can provide half of the European Union's electricity requirements in 2050, the European Wind Energy Association said Tuesday.
"The potential is there and the industry is ready. All we have to do is maintain current growth rates on- and offshore," Christian Kjaer, EWEA's chief executive is quoted as saying in a statement during the European Wind Energy Conference in Warsaw.
Wind energy can provide half of the European Union's electricity
requirements in 2050, the European Wind Energy Association said Tuesday.
"The potential is there and the industry is ready. All we have to do is
maintain current growth rates on- and offshore," Christian Kjaer, EWEA's
chief executive is quoted as saying in a statement during the European Wind
Energy Conference in
Warsaw
.
Other renewables could "easily" meet the other half of
Europe
's
energy needs in 2050, Kjaer said.
The creation of a pan-European power grid, which allows for smart management of
renewable energies, and a strong political commitment to the expansion of wind
energy, are prerequisites for such a huge increase in wind power, Kjaer said.
The unstable nature of wind power output, which can spike when winds blow hard
and plunge when winds subside, is starting to be a strain on power grids in
some countries that as yet aren't prepared for great fluctuations in
electricity output.
The wind capacity installed in the EU by the end of 2009 will in a normal year
produce 163 terawatt hours of electricity, meeting 4.8% of EU power demand, the
EWEA had said earlier.
"A fully renewable power sector is the only solution to reaching 80%-95%
CO2 reductions by 2050," EWEA President Arthouros Zervos, is quoted as
saying at the same event, adding that decisions on the construction of new
renewable energy power plants from 2020 onwards need to be made.
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