文档介绍：LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION OF WIND ENERGY
IN THE EUROPEAN POWER SUPPLY:
analysis, issues and mendations
A report by EWEA
RATIONALE
1. We now live in an era of energy uncertainty. The days of cheap and abundantly available energy are over.
2. Europe is running out of indigenous energy resources in the form of fossil fuels at a time when a paradigm shift
in energy prices is occurring. It is clear that this century will be characterised by petition for energy
which will inevitably push up prices, lead to periodic scarcity and precipitate a scramble for reserves among the
world’s main economic blocks.
3. Europe’s dependency on imported fossil fuel has e a threat to economic stability because of the impact of
increased fuel prices on the cost base, most notably on the price of electricity. It is essential that Europe develops
its own internal energy resources to the maximum extent possible, as well as promoting energy efficiency.
4. Europe is an energy intensive region heavily reliant on imports; already today, it imports 50% of its energy needs
and that share is likely to increase to 70% within two decades unless Europe changes direction. By 2030, oil
imports would rise from 76% to 88% and gas imports from 50% to 81%, compared to 2000. Indigenous fossil fuel
resources, such as the North Sea, are in rapid decline.
5. Europe is the world leader in renewable energy and in the most promising and mature renewable technology, wind
power, it has both petitive parative advantage.
6. Wind energy will not only be able to contribute to securing European energy independence and climate goals in the
future, it could also turn a serious energy supply problem into an opportunity for Europe in the forms mercial
benefits, technology research, exports and employment.
7. The economic future of Europe can be planned on the basis of known and predictable cost of electricity derived
from an indigenous energy source free of all the secu