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01/30/2001	Future Energy AG Prepares Application Procedure for Offshore Park Arkona Bay South-East Future Energy AG, Berlin, is planning to start the application conference for the offshore windpark Arkona Bay South-East in the first half of 2001. The location is the Baltic Sea near the island of Rügen. The windpark will probably have a capacity of 860 MW and features an investment volume of 2,5 billion DM. A feeding licence from the net-operator VEAG has been applied for and already granted. According to Dr. Andreas Brockmöller of the managing board of Future Energy AG, the company is seking a listing at the stock exchange, together with the approval of the offshore park. (iwr)
01/30/2001	Future Energy AG Prepares Application Procedure for Offshore Park Arkona Bay South-East Future Energy AG, Berlin, is planning to start the application conference for the offshore windpark Arkona Bay South-East in the first half of 2001. The location is the Baltic Sea near the island of Rügen. The windpark will probably have a capacity of 860 MW and features an investment volume of 2,5 billion DM. A feeding licence from the net-operator VEAG has been applied for and already granted. According to Dr. Andreas Brockmöller of the managing board of Future Energy AG, the company is seking a listing at the stock exchange, together with the approval of the offshore park. (iwr)
01/25/2001	Results of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Leading climate change scientists and government officials from around the world released on Monday during a confernce of climate change scientists in Shanghai the IPCC-Report of the United Nations. The new report projects a global warming of 1,4 to 5,8 degrees Celsius by 2100. The report deals with the climatic system in general and with the direct results of global warming. Itconfirms that the evidence for humanity´s influence is now stronger than ever before. According to the report , sea levels are likely to rise 9 to 88 centimeters during the next century. (iwr) P&T Technology AG Absorbs Spanish Windpark Developer P&T Technology AG, listed at the New Market (WKN: 685 280), seated in Hamburg, has absorbed the Spanish windpark developer Ibero Energias Renovables S.L. (IBER). At present IBER has several projects in planning nearby Malaga, Granada and Huevla with a tolat output of 57 MW and turnovers of more than 110 million DM. This was reported by P&T Hamburg. Financial details were not announced. (iwr) About the market-price of the P&T-share
01/23/2001	California Energy Crisis Boosts Solar Energy Industry The solar energy industry of Calfornia, USA, experiences a boom after the latest power rate hikes and two days of rolling blackouts. This was reported by ENN worldwire news. People inquire at solar companies, and many contractors who do solar installations are now booked solid for the next several months. The SolarDepot in San Rafael is hiring additional salespeople and warehouse help. State officials say that California´s energy crisis has inspired a fresh wave of consumers to explore solar energy, and people that have been thinking about going solar for a long time needet the crisis to push them over the edge. According to M C Solar owner Mike Clifton "the PV systems tend to be more popular right now because of concerns about blackouts." Worldwide, sales of solar generators have become a $2.5 billion market, said Paul Maycock, editor of "Photovoltaic News" in Virginia. Grid-connected home power systems account for nearly one-third of the U.S. market. Many states provide a variety of rebates and incentives to subsidize solar power. Although many consumers are not aware of it, the California Energy Commission offers a "Buy Down Program" of cash rebates for buying an eligible renewable energy system. In the year 2000, the CEC received 947 requests for the rebate. "In the last three weeks we've gotten another 100 applications," said Miller, the program's account manager. (iwr) EU Wants Doubling of Electicity from Renewable Energies to 22,1 percent The European Commission has presented an improved proposal for a directive to promote renewable energies and with this affirmed its goal to raise the share of renewables of the energy supply to 22,1 percent until 2010. This was announced by Hans-Josef Fell, research-political spokesman of Bündnis90/Die Grünen faction. The EEC members may decide on their own with which means they will reach this goal. At first, the Commission only wants to observe the members. In the new proposal the Commission finally accepted at the European Parlament´s urging "that it is important for the judgement of an instument for the introduction of renewable energies to the market how successful its contribution is for the extension of renewable energies", as stated by Fell. The Commission announced that a regulation should be effective, simple, and efficient. Should there be binding regulations throughout Europe in a few years, the present successful German Renewable Energy Law could be the model, said Fell. (iwr)
01/18/2001	Too Warm in the Year 2000 According to the American National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) the global temperature in the year 2000 was 0,39 centigrade above the average of many years (1880-1999). The land-temperatures were 0,59 centigrades and the ocean-temperatures 0,30 centigrades above the average. In the last 120 years the only warmer years were 1998, 1997, 1995, 1990, and 1999. (iwr) USA: World's Largest Wind Plant at Oregon-Washington Border As announced by PacificCorp last week, FPL Energy, LLC, will build, own, and operate a new 300-megawatt wind facility along the Washington-Oregon border southwest of Walla Walla, Washington. The facility will be the world´s largest, called the Stateline Wind Generating Project. It will draw on 450 wind turbines to produce enough power for 70,000 homes. The power will be sold by PacificCorp Power Marketing Inc. throughout the West. Most of the faacility should be produciing power by the end of 2001. (iwr)
01/11/2001	Solar World AG Increases Sales 2000 In the financial year 2000, SolarWorld AG increased sales by more than 200% to 32 million DM, compared to the previous year (10,5 million DM). For the year 2000 the enterprise will pay a dividend to its stockholders for the first time, provided the responsible board will agree. In addition to SolarWorld AG, the development of SolarWorld subsidiary Deutsche Solar GmbH (previously Bayer Solar) regarding turnover and returns was positiv. Overall, SolarWorld AG and Deutsche Solar gained sales amounting to 105 million DM in the last financial year. (iwr)
01/09/2001	Poland: New Regulation for Feeding Electricity from Renewable Energies into the Net From January 1, 2001 on, a new regulation is in force governing the obligation to buy electricity form renewable energies in the country. This was announced yesterday by EconTrade Deutschland GmbH, Dresden. According to EconTrade the previous regulation provided that every Polish distributor was obligated to buy electricity from renewable energies as long as it was offered at a price not above the price of the highest low tension tariff on the territory of the distributor. New polish model for renewable energies: At this, the new regulation is passing over to a completely different system. Merely a number of minimal shares of renewable energies of the total turmover of an eneterprise is fixed. These amount to: 2,4 % in the year 2001, 2,5 % in 2002, 2,65 % in 2003, 2,85 in 2004, 3,1 % in 2005, 3,6 % im Jahr 2006, 4,2 % im Jahr 2007, 5,0 % in 2008, 6,0 % in 2009, 7,5 in 2010 and in the following years. Responsible for the complianceof these shares/ quotas are the enterprises. (iwr)