Wind-energy in Belgium Facts en future plans Catholic Institute of Higher Education in South –...

Wind-energy in Belgium

Facts en future plans

Catholic Institute of Higher Education in South – West- FlandersBelgium

12% consumption EU produced with turbinesSource: greenpeace and EWEA

Wind force 12

Wind-energy

• Onshore • Offshore

Wind-energy

• Offshore

Situation in Belgium

Offshore project C-power

• 60 wind turbines of min. 3.6 MW to max. 5 MW• Annual generation of 710 GWh to 1000 GWh• Enough energy for the annual consumption of 200,000 to 300,000

families• Enough energy to provide all the families in Belgium with electricity

for three weeks• Avoided CO2 emission: 450,000 tonnes/year (compared with the

environmentally most friendly gas power stations) • = the annual CO2 absorption of a forested area of 87,668 ha

= a strip of forest 15km wide along the entire Belgian coastline= 4 x the area of public forest within the Flemish Region

• 1/3rd of the Belgian renewable energy target by 2010

renewable energy

Target 2010: 6%

Wind-energy

• Onshore • Offshore

Windturbines in Flanders

Turbine

Enercon 112

• 4500 KW• 124 m hight• 114 m rotor diameter • Gearless system

Wind-energy in Belgium

DVD visit Turbine

Catholic Institute of Higher Education in South – West- FlandersBelgium

• Info:

– Pedro LigneelKATHO

Pedro.ligneel@katho.be

• Links: • www.ewea.org• www.c-power.be