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Publisher: Internationales Wirtschaftsforum Regenerative Energien (IWR)
Wind year 2005 in Germany: Ups and downs during first half-year of 2005
Muenster (iwr-pressedienst) – In the first six months of 2005, the electricity generation from wind was above the 10-year mean (1995-2004) in coastal areas and below it in inland areas. The Internationale Wirtschaftsforum Regenerative Energien (International Economic Platform for Renewable Energies – IWR) in Münster has announced that by the end of June 2005, the IWR wind yield index showed a plus of 4.9 per cent for coastal areas and a minus of 6.4 per cent for the northwest German inland compared to the 10-year mean. "The construction of additional turbines means we’re expecting for 2005 an increase in wind-generated electricity in Germany of around 30 billion kilowatt hours," says IWR Managing Director Dr. Norbert Allnoch. Thus wind power’s share of the gross electricity consumption (600 billion kilowatt hours) increases to 5 per cent. Together with hydroelectric power, bioenergy and photovoltaics, the IWR is expecting renewable electricity generation in 2005 to increase for the first time to around 60 billion kilowatt hours (around 10 per cent of the gross electricity consumption).
Muenster, July 14th, 2005
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About Internationales Wirtschaftsforum Regenerative Energien (IWR)
In 1996, the International Economic Platform for Renewable Energies (IWR) was established as an independent and private service institution of the renewable energy industry. The IWR focuses on the fields of research, economic and policy consultation as well as media and international networks in the renewable or regenerative energies sector. One main objective of the IWR is to play an instrumental role in introducing and spreading awareness for an industrial, international business profile of the renewable energy industry.
Dr. Norbert Allnoch, Director of the International Economic Platform of Renewable Energies (IWR), 1995, on the definition: "According to our definition, the Renewable Energy Industry is one which takes an interdisciplinary approach to the issue of renewable energy supply (protecting both the climate and resources) and the construction of renewable plants and systems (industry policy for the three areas electricity, heat and fuel."Chronology of the Renewable Energy Industry - Important IWR contributions, including prizes and awards - 2007 Publication of the first structural analysis for a federal state according to the IWR-analysis method for renewable systems engineering and services�(study "Zur Lage der regenerativen Energiewirtschaft in NRW" )2007 International network-contacts:IWR-director Dr. Allnoch speaks with King Harald V. of Norway and �slaug Haga, norwegian minister of energy Presentation of the network / RENIXX in the USA, dialogue with McGinty, environment minister of Pennsylvania2006 IWR starts renewable stock index RENIXX� (