Wind power in France

Wind power in France

France is the second largest wind resource in Europe after the United Kingdom. Électricité de France, the main French electricity generator and supplier in France plans to increase its capacity to 10 GW in the year 2010.

The French government plans to produce 21% of its electricity consumption with renewable energy in 2010 to comply with European directive 2001/77/CE of 27 September 2001. This means that France has to produce 106 TWh of renewable energy in 2010 when it only produced 71 TWh in 2006. Wind power represents 75% of the 35 TWh additional production in 2010. [source: Jérôme Gosset et Thierry Ranchin: "Bilan et prospective de la filière éolienne française") [http://www2.ademe.fr/servlet/getBin?name=A3E80D341D116A2960F5DDE5207B0DA01147367514013.pdf] ]

A 67 MW capacity can also be added for the DOM-TOM regions. This represents 1.718 wind turbines.

References

External Links

[http://www.sustainability.mottmac.com/ Mott MacDonald Sustainability Group] Lenders' Engineer for Plantina Finance project in France


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