Barriers to wind development in Romania

Wind Barriers

Meeting the climate and energy challenges

Bucharest, Romania
Tuesday, 6 July 2010


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Presentations to download:

Session One

Paolo Berrino, Press Officer, EWEA

Give Europe a Breath of Fresh Air!

PPT 2MB
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Session Two:
Barriers to wind development in Romania

Benjamin Pfluger, Fraunhofer Institute ISI, Germany

Presentation and overview of WindBarriers project and methodology

PPT_2.2MB
in English

Sune Strøm, Danish Wind Energy Association, Denmark

Administrative barriers to wind power development

PPT 400KB
in English

Alexandru Sandulescu, Energy Directorate, Ministry of Economy, Romania

How Romania’s National Renewable Energy Action Plan is tackling administrative barriers

PPT 1.7MB
in English

Charlotte Boesen, DONG Energy, Denmark

Evaluating wind power projects in Turkey

PPT 1.1MB
in English

Session Three:
Barriers connecting to the Romanian grid

Emilien Simonot, Asociación Empresarial Eólica, Spain

Grid barriers to wind power development

PPT 1.1MB
in English

Session Four:
Interactive Panel discussion: EU 20% directive: opportunities for Romania

Kutlay Arin, Vestas

PDF 55KB
in English



Wind Barriers

The WINDBARRIERS project aims at gathering up to date and comprehensive information on the administrative and grid access barriers that obstruct the development of wind energy in Europe.

It will quantify lead times for projects installed in the last 12 months, both onshore and offshore, across EU 27. The data gathered covers inter alia the timeframe for getting the necessary permits, the costs linked to the process, the number of actions involved, the success and failure rate of the applications etc. The data is obtained from national wind energy associations, major utilities and project developers active in the EU.

The final publication (foreseen summer 2010) will be a toolkit for policy makers to reduce administrative and grid access barriers, at EU and national level. The recommendations will be disseminated by the consortium. This will be done through the organisation of workshops in 5 EU countries, out of which 3 in new Member States.

The project results are also available via: www.windbarriers.eu