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Citizens’ group promotes wind power in Switzerland

Wind power gains ground in Switzerland GenevaLunch Jessica Evans, 5 February 2010 New wind turbines at Saint-Brais, canton Jura, will raise Switzerland’s total annual renewable energy power production to 17.5 MW, according to Suisse Eole, the Swiss wind energy promotion association.

Switzerland has a limited number of wind turbines, but the Jura wind park is the first in the country to be financed by a broad citizen base: some 600 private investors are behind the two 2 MW turbines.

Suisse Eole predicts an increase of 200 MW of power by 2015. By 2030 wind farming in Switzerland could provide 2.5 percent of the national electricity supply, and by 2050 that figure will jump to 7 percent, the group says……..
Wind supplied 40 percent of energy in Europe in 2009: no other single source of power had that capacity, the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) shows in statistics published 4 February. Europe last year invested more than euros 13 billion in renewable energy. Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy and Spain were the biggest producers of wind energy, according to the new report.

Christian Kjaer, chief executive of EWEA (European Wind and Energy Association) saysthat  ”wind power, together with other renewable energy technologies and a shift from coal to gas, is delivering massive European carbon reductions, while creating much needed economic activity and new jobs for Europe’s citizens.”

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February 6, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | climate change, EUROPE, renewable | energy efficiency, renewable energy, renewables