Energy from small wind turbines is becoming a global economic factor

Husum - According to industry experts, energy from small wind turbines could become a strong economic factor throughout the world, offering German manufacturers massive export potential. This is why Hermann Albers, president of the German Wind Energy Association (BWE), has repeatedly spoken of the need to have a proper shop window here at home – and not least because a lack of incentives in Germany has meant that there no noticeable market has developed here.

The situation is very different in Denmark. According to Preben Maegaard, director of the Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy, a relevant branch of industry has grown up around the small wind turbine business over the past year. The jump-start for this was the newly established legal framework, such as the introduction of net metering. In simple terms, net metering means that domestic electricity meters can run backwards. This way, owners of small renewable energy units indirectly get the electricity they feed into the grid paid for at the domestic electricity tariff.

In Germany there is certainly no lack of potential small wind turbine owners. Walter Eggersglüss from the Chamber of Agriculture sees that the interest in Schleswig-Holstein, where over 50 small wind turbines are already up and running, is primarily from farmers whose farms have high power costs, \"The demand will continue to increase substantially when there is significant improvement in the remuneration for the energy fed into the grid is significantly improved\".

At an international level, the smaller wind turbines are particularly interesting for emerging countries, because they give people in less developed rural areas the chance to produce electricity themselves, decentrally, says Jami Hossain from India. China also offers massive potential where, according to Shen Dechang from CWEEA (International Wind Energy Exhibition and Conference) there were already 450,000 small wind turbines installed by the end of 2010. This is how 1.75 million people are now supplied with electricity.

Dechang is, like Albers, Maegaard, Eggersglüss and Hossain, participating in the second international summit of the small wind turbine industry (2nd World Summit on Small Wind Turbines) which is being held at New Energy Husum (17 to 20 March). The Husum exhibition and trade fair on the use of renewable energy has now become the most important market place for the small wind turbine industry. The international conference, organised in association with the World Wind Energy Association (WWEA) and the BWE, is one of the highlights of the show, with attendees from more than ten nations on the first two days of the fair.

The discussion will include the political framework that is necessary to guarantee greater dissemination of this modern technology. A point of interest in this context is that the German Ministry of Economics export initiative has been getting more involved with the future markets fir this sector, and is now offering German businesses help in entering the market.

In addition to the events that are part of the international small wind turbine summit, on 18 March the German Small Wind Turbine Association will be focusing on the legal framework in Germany at its conference session entitled \"What must the EEG (Renewable Energy Act) amendment do for small wind turbine technology?\" And small wind turbine technology is, alongside bioenergy, photovoltaics and electric cars, one of the highlights of the trade fair: with over 50 exhibitors, the small wind sector makes up a fifth of the total 250 exhibitors at New Energy Husum. The show gives an overview of all the renewables over 14,000 square metres of exhibition space, with an expected 17,000 visitors.

More details at http://www.new-energy.de


Husum, 21 February 2011


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