Sweden’s objective is to derive 50% of its energy from renewables by 2020. The companies have to still get grant from the Swedish government.
We hope to get a decision (from the Swedish government) during 2009, Svevind Chairman Wolfgang Kropp said. We have already started construction with a pilot project, and we will move ahead this year and next year. Kropp said the project will use the Enercon E82 and E126 turbines, the latter standing 135 meters tall to the hub. Rated at 6 megawatts, the E126 turbine has a rotor blade diameter of 126 meters. The first prototypes were deployed at some other test locations in Europe in 2008.
We are very pleased with this decision, said Mikael Kyrkf, Chief Operating Officer at Svevind. Now we hope for a quick decision from the government so that we can begin producing wind power in line with parliament’s targets for renewable energy. The windfarm will be located in sparsely populated land and will comprise turbines no taller than 200 metres. The companies say that the land has perfect wind conditions and it is already crossed by three power lines, which will make transmission of power to the national grid easy.
