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windcomm newsletter June Edition 2014

2windcomm newsletter June 2014

Editorial

Editorial

EEG 2014 and the power of the German Federal States, the "Länder"

Dear readers,

The reform of the Renewable Energies Act (Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz, EEG) presents new parameters for dialogue and energy policy. The last EEG amendment under the previous CDU/CSU and FDP government paid little heed to the renewable energies associations, and this tendency has become even more marked under the current CDU/CSU and SPD coalition. How else can it be explained that the national association Bundesverband WindEnergie was not invited to the hearing at the beginning of June?

The lack of interest on the part of politics makes one wonder who can currently best close this gap and represent the interests, in particular of Schleswig-Holstein’s wind sector. The answer is perhaps surprising: the "Länder"! Without the summit meeting on 1 April this year when Federal Energy Minister Gabriel met with the Minister Presidents of the northern Länder the Cabinet’s EEG draft proposal would have been much more stringent. The Bundesrat (Germany’s Federal Council of the Länder) has also suggested several amendments (read more about this on page 10 of this newsletter). The Länder also demanded that the Bundesrat be closely involved in important regulations related to the EEG.

windcomm was actively involved in this process and discussed and developed recommendations together with Schleswig-Holstein’s government and administrative bodies. The recommendations were also passed on to Schleswig-Holstein’s representatives in the Federal Government. Windcomm e. V’s 2nd "Stammtisch" meeting has also sparked off numerous dialogues. So we hope, despite all the cuts, to continue our constructive and creative pursuit of the energy transition process.

We hope you enjoy reading the newsletter. Your windcomm schleswig-holstein team

Dr. Matthias Hüppauff

Project Coordinator Network Agency

Martin Schmidt

Managing Director windcomm e.V.


10 News from the political arena

10 Update on the EEG reform

13 "A major challenge to grid and system integration"

15 From 70 to 300 percent

16 Parliamentary evening on offshore topics

17 Dates and events

17 Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein to hold reception

at the WindEnergy fair

18 People

18 Commercial law specialist in management

19 New project managers for the Wind Energy

Centre of Excellence

19 New leadership at BWE

20 New faces at the Maritime Cluster

20 New WKN Board

4 windcomm news

4 New members of windcomm e. V.

6 News from the wind sector

6 Company portrait: tb engineers

7 Construction work off Sylt and Helgoland

8 Service network for small and medium-sized enterprises

9 Allocation of stands for HUSUM Wind 2015 in full swing

9 New Wind Energy Centre of Excellence

Contents

Contents

157 8 9 10


INASEA is a Bremen-based company with three mainstays: support, academy and science. With two permanent staff and a large pool of freelancers and cooperation partners, including the Mariners’ Training College of Schleswig-Holstein, the INASEA Academy offers offshore emergency training courses. The support and science sectors offer professional assessments, environmental impact studies, approval and authorisation procedures and other scientific and consultancy services.

www.inasea.de www.offshore-training.de

Kleine GmbH & Co. KG is an engineering company located in Nortorf and specialised in the planning of electrical wiring for wind farms, solar and biogas plants. They also provide site and construction management services. [email protected]

windcomm news

New members of windcomm e. V.

Partner M&A GmbH is a Bremen-based agency which provides support in the fields of customer acquisition, sales and marketing. They have been particularly successful in acquiring new customers for businesses in the industry and logistics sectors. They also offer consultancy services in the following areas: development of new sales strategies, product placement and optimising external and in-house operations.

For a number of years they have been responsible for marketing Messe Husum & Congress and are currently supporting windcomm e. V. in their efforts to gain new members.

www.partnerma.de

RT Silikone from Riede near Bremen specialises in the trade in non cross-linked silicones. Owner and Managing Director, Rainer Habekost, has written scientific books on these materials and so is able to offer his customers comprehensive advice on optimal use and composition of the silicone required for their specific purposes. Uses of silicones in machine and plant construction include sealants, cable links and castings for the construction of prototypes. www.rtsilikone.de


Schneider Controlling-Consulting GmbH provides planning and technical support for construction ventures, including transmission line projects. The company’s project planning remit includes rights of way negotiations, coor-dination of the various trades, applications and documen-tation as well as surveying services and management and supervision of construction activities.

Their other major area of business is the coordination of workplace safety and accident prevention. They provide specialists in work safety and carry out BGV A3 (safety of electrical devices) and other inspections as well as offering training seminars on workplace safety and accident prevention and on-site first aid courses. [email protected]

windcomm news

New members of windcomm e. V.

tb engineers GmbH & Co KG is an engineering company based in Hohenwestedt and provides, amongst other things, wind, power performance and nacelle power curve measure-ments for wind energy plants. It was founded by Olaf Bruhn and Christoph Thiel who both have more than 15 years’ experience in this field. They also offer consultancy services in connection with the measurements, providing for example operational data and performance optimisation analyses. www.tb-engineers.de

The VR Bank Flensburg-Schleswig eG is one of the largest cooperative banks in North Germany and as such is a competent partner for financing requirements in the field of renewable energies. Together with clients they work out financial solutions for biogas, photovoltaic and wind energy plants. The bank has 15 branches and around 240 employees in the Schleswig-Flensburg region. www.vrbank-fl-sl.de


The engineering company tb engineers GmbH & Co KG was founded at the beginning of 2014 and provides wind measurements at wind plant locations and power performance and nacelle power curve measurements on the wind energy plants themselves. The two founders, Olaf

Bruhn and Christoph Thiel have been working in these fields for over 15 years.

windcomm: Mr. Thiel, how will the planned changes to the EEG affect the German wind market and your business?Thiel: Our business is internationally oriented but the home market is still very important for us. So it is imperative that our customers – the operators and manufacturers of wind energy plants – encounter a functioning market. If this isn’t the case, it will also have an impact on service providers like us.

windcomm: What points do you think need to be improved in the draft of the EEG reform? Thiel: The ceiling may represent a considerable risk for future investors who will not be able to assess whether they will be eligible for subsidies or not – or will only be able to do so this very late in the process. Also, because it is to become obligatory to put projects out to tender, it may become considerably more difficult in future to realise community wind farm or cooperative projects.

windcomm: Yield optimisation is also part of your con-sultancy portfolio. Is there a general recommendation you can give onshore "windmillers"? Thiel: It’s very difficult to generalise, as the projects, and so the potential problems, are all very different. Recommenda-tions range from adjustments to the plants themselves – for example if the nacelle is wrongly positioned or the pitch of the blades is wrong – to overestimated revenue prognoses. If production appears to be low it is important to thoroughly and systematically analyse the reasons. windcomm: What role will yield optimisation have to play in established locations? Thiel: It also makes sense to do performance checks on old plants. Often just taking a look at the annual production figures is sufficient to be able to assess whether an optimisation process is worthwhile or not. Of course, the increase in pro-fitability for larger plants and wind farms is potentially larger and so more likely to justify the probable effort and outlay.

Company portrait: tb engineers

News from the wind sector

windcomm: What major challenges will the wind sector have to face in the next six years?Thiel: The wind sector has seen major new developments in recent years. Now that it has been proven that these plants function, the durability of these products has to be demonstrated. The future will bring the use of new technologies to optimise operations. These technologies range from load-dependent regulatory mechanisms to nacelle-based laser instruments to measure wind "in front of" the plant.

Yield analyses and consultation services are provided by tb engineers.

Photo: Birresborn

tb engineers

GmbH & Co. KG

Böternhöfen 37

24594 Hohenwestedt

T +49 4871 7617-123

F +49 4871 7617-113

[email protected]

www.tb-engineers.de


The first offshore wind farm off Schleswig-Holstein’s coast, within sight of the island of Helgoland, was completed in April this year. WindMW GmbH ("WindMW"), a joint venture of Blackstone Energy Partners from the USA and the Berlin company Windland Energieerzeugungs GmbH announced the installation of the last of a total of 80 3.6-megawatt turbines in the Meerwind Süd/Ost wind farm. However, the wind farm is not yet connected to the grid and so cannot yet feed in electricity; this is scheduled to be completed before the end of the year.

In the neighbouring wind farm Nordsee Ost operated by RWE Innogy the offshore installation vessel "Victoria Mathias" is being used to install the first wind turbines. In a few weeks’ time RWE Innogy will be sending a second installation vessel with the goal of completing the wind farm by spring 2015. The transformer substation is scheduled to be installed in the construction site before the end of this year. A service and operation building for Nordsee Ost wind farm on the island of Helgoland with offices and storage depot has recently been completed.

The substation has already been installed in the wind farm Amrumbank West, like the two wind farms mentioned above, a part of the Helgoland cluster. When the farm is in operation

the substation will collect the energy generated by the 80 wind power plants and transmit it to a converter station before the wind electricity is transported onto land. The substation will be operated by the wind farm’s service station on Helgoland, and E.ON’s Offshore Marine Coordination Center in Hamburg will oversee and control operations.

At the offshore construction site Butendiek, 32 kilometres west of Sylt, installation of the wind plant foundations (monopiles) has begun.

At the end of May, Schleswig-Holstein’s Minister President Torsten Albig flew to the construction site of the offshore wind farm DanTysk; of all the wind farms under construction this is the furthest from the mainland and is located 70 km west of Sylt. He wanted to see the practical side of what had just been decided in the reform of the Renewable Energies Act (EEG), said Albig. He went on to say that this reform was important to ensure planning certainty for companies such as Vattenfall which had invested enormous sums of money in this wind energy industry. The operator consortium consisting of DanTysk and the Stadtwerke München reported that there are already 80 wind-turbine foundation structures in place at the site; the first turbines are currently being installed.


Construction work off Sylt and Helgoland

The first four turbines are now under

construction in the DanTysk offshore

wind farm. Photo: Vattenfall

Construction is underway at

four offshore wind farms off

Schleswig-Holstein’s coast; one is

already complete. Graphic: BSH

Amrumbank West: www.eon.com

Butendiek: www.owp-butendiek.de

DanTysk: www.dantysk.de

Meerwind Süd/ Ost: www.windmw.de/meerwind

Nordsee Ost: www.rwe.com

http://www.eon.com/en/media/news/press-releases/2014/5/2/amrumbank-west-project-on-course.html

http://www.dantysk.com

www.rwenordseeost.com


The regional hub is the EEN Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein. The organisations behind the EEN here are the Investitions-bank Schleswig-Hosltein (IB.SH), the Business Development and Technology Transfer Corporation Schleswig-Holstein (WTSH), TuTech Innovation GmbH (TuTech) and the Hamburg Investitions- und Förderbank (IFB). These four partners offer a variety of services free of charge to local businesses. These include "matchmaking" events such as WindMatch 2014

The Enterprise Europe Network (EEN), the world’s largest service network for small and medium-sized enterprises (SEMs), provides competent, free-of-charge information and support for anyone wishing to know more about European subsidy programmes or about successful marketing of innovative products on the international market. The network’s job is to support the internationalisation of SEMs and research institutes and so to boost their competitive ability.


Service network for small and medium-sized enterprises

The Enterprise Europe Network

organises business contact and

"matchmaking" events like this one

held during the OBMC 2013.

Photo: windcomm/ BirresbornContact: Cornelia Pankratz,Investitionsbank Schleswig-Holstein (IB.SH)Enterprise Europe Network Hamburg-Schleswig-Holstein Phone: +49 431 9905 3495E-Mail: [email protected]

which is to take place on 24 and 25 September during the wind fair in Hamburg and will provide a useful forum for finding international partners for wind projects. The IB.SH also provides detailed and individual information and advice on opportunities for support and financing through EU funds; this includes all EU programmes relevant for the wind sector. They also provide competent support free of charge for the implementation of wind projects.

www.een-hhsh.de, www.ib-sh.de


The allocation of stand space for the world’s most famous wind trade fair has begun. The first firms are currently receiving their suggested stand allocations for HUSUM Wind 2015, and there is a rush for the best positions.

Although it is still another 15 months until Husum opens its doors to the wind industry once again, bookings for the mother of all wind shows are going well. The best known turbine manufacturers, such as Enercon, GE Siemens, Nordex and Senvion are already on board, as are other famous names in the wind industry like Atlas Copco, Bachmann, BayWaRe, Beckhoff, Bosch Rexroth, Eickhoff, Energiequelle, Hydac, Lapp Kabel, Naturstrom, Notus energy, Phoenix Contact, PNE Wind, Svendborg Brakes, UKA, Vensys, Winergy, WKN, WPD, Youmex and many more. The logos of a selection of the many firms that have registered are published on www.husumwind.com during this stand allocation period.

HUSUM Wind has not only supported developments in the wind industry for the last 25 years, it also created a home for a whole new industry. Husum’s focus is now on the core markets of Germany and its neighbouring regions. Many businesses made their breakthrough with an appearance at HUSUM Wind, and they know very well that there is no better or more pleasant place to do business. HUSUM Wind 2015 is being held from 15th to 18th September 2015.

If you also want to fly your flag at HUSUM Wind, then please contact Lars Kessler on +49 4841 902336 or eMail him at [email protected] for more information or advice.

www.husumwind.com

Allocation of stands for HUSUM Wind 2015 in full swing

Many of the big wind energy names have already booked a stand at

HUSUM Wind 2015. Photo: Messe Husum & Congress


New Wind Energy Centre of Excellence

The Research and Development Centre of Kiel University of Applied Science (Forschungs- und Entwicklungszentrum Fachhochschule Kiel GmbH; FuE-Zentrum) is now the central address for academic wind energy research in Schleswig-Holstein. This new Centre of Excellence, CE WindEnergy SH (Kompetenzzentrum Windenergie), is taking over the tasks of the insolvent organisation, CEwind e. G. At the windcommunity meeting in Husum in March, Minister of Economic Affairs, Reinhard Meyer, presented the FuE-Zentrum FH Kiel GmbH with a notice of funding amounting to about 242,000 Euro.

The goal of CE WindEnergy SH is to strengthen cooperation in terms of wind energy research at the universities and universities of applied sciences in Flensburg, Heide, Kiel and Lübeck. The project will also support small and medium-sized enterprises in the areas of applied research and training of young graduates. Project managers are Janina Ipsen and Sophie Jankonwski, who we introduce on page 19. www.fh-kiel-gmbh.de


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Referenzstandort in %

Vergütungssätze Onshore nach EEG 2012/2014

Durchschnittsvergütung über 20 Jahre in Cent / KWh 2012

Durchschnittsvergütung über 20 Jahre in Cent / KWh März 2014, abzüglich Direktvermarktungskosten Durchschnittsvergütung über 20 Jahre in Cent / KWh April 2014, abzüglich Direktvermarktungskosten Alternativvorschlag nach Abzug von Direktvermarktungskosten

The reformed Renewable Energies Act (EEG) is due to be passed in the Federal Parliament on 26 June and to come into effect on 1 August 2014. From the policy paper agreed by the Cabinet in January 2014 to the version drafted by advisors in March to the Cabinet decision of April 2014, the draft has seen a number of changes. Some of these were based on discussions held by Federal Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy, Sigmar Gabriel, with the Minister Presidents of the "Länder". It is not yet known which of the amendments suggested by the "Bundesrat" (Council of the "Länder") in May will be adopted. The new EEG does not have to be approved by the "Bundesrat".

Some of the amendments suggested or supported by Schleswig-Holstein in the "Bundesrat" included the responses to the critical points of the EEG-advisors’ draft which were made by windcomm and representatives of the wind industry and the relevant administrative authorities during the "Think-Tank Energiewende SH’ meeting. windcomm had passed on recommendations for the discussions around the Reform Act in the Federal Parliament ("Bundestag") and "Bundesrat" to Schleswig-Holstein’s Minister President Torsten Albig, Federal Minister Gabriel, Energy Transition Minister Dr. Robert Habeck, Minister of Economic Affairs Reinhard Meyer, and to the representatives in Schleswig-Holstein’s parliament as well as to the representatives of Schleswig-Holstein in the "Bundestag".

The critical points of the EEG 2014 as in the Cabinet decision of April 2014 are:

1. Remuneration: The "belly" of the new remuneration rates has shrunk compared with the advisors’ draft but it has not gone. This means that the remuneration for wind electricity from strong wind areas will see larger reductions than

News from the political arena

Update on the EEG reform

electricity from weaker wind areas (see graphic). windcomm recommends a linear reduction of remuneration according to location quality so that, on the one hand, inland projects are still worthwhile, but on the other hand strong wind areas are not disadvantaged. However, it is unlikely that changes will

be made to this point.

The "belly" in the calculation of wind energy remuneration turns out more moderate

in the Cabinet’s recommendation than in the previous version drafted by the

government’s consultants. Graphic: windcomm/Denker & Wulf


EEG 2014 Kabinettsbeschluss:Vergütungsknick für Offshore-Windenergie

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

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Durch das Ende des Stauchungsmodells und den doppelten Degressionsschritt im Basismodell, knickt die Vergütung für eine Inbetriebnahme ab 01.01.2020 deutlich ab

get their remuneration after the “old” EEG 2012, if they are connected to the grid by 31.12.2014 and BImSchG-permits were granted before the cut-off date of 23.01.2014. Schleswig-Holstein’s government under Minister President Torsten Albig and other "Länder" argued in the "Bundesrat"

in favour of removing the cut-off date.



3. Tenders: As of 2017 the remuneration rate for all new renewable energy projects is to be determined by putting them to tender. In a pilot phase to start this year the tender process is to be tested for free-standing photovoltaic installations. Schleswig-Holstein supported the motion in the "Bundesrat" to initiate and evaluate a pilot phase for the other renewable technologies. A "tender report" is to be prepared by 2015 to clarify whether the tender process has proved successful in other "Länder" and to ascertain how best to design the tender text so as to give SMEs and citizen participation projects a chance of success. The specifications of the tenders should be subject to approval by the "Bundesrat".

4. ‚Flexible cap": The EEG Reform draft approved by the Cabinet foresees that remuneration for wind energy generated by plants installed from 2015 onwards will depend on the degree of expansion: If wind energy capacity expands by more than 2,400 to 2,600 MW annually, remuneration will be lower; if expansion

remains below this, remuneration will be higher (degression model). Degression should be adjusted every three months. Schleswig-Holstein suggested annual rather than quarterly adjustments but there was no majority in the "Bundesrat"

for this.

5. Offshore wind energy: The motion to bring forward to 2019 the planned ceiling of 6.5 GW for offshore wind energy expansion is supported by a majority in the "Bundesrat". Hamburg, supported by Schleswig-Holstein

2. Cut-off date: It is intended that the remuneration rates for the new EEG (EEG 2014) should be applicable for all renewable energy projects which go into operation after 1 August 2014. According to the cabinet’s decision, for all plants in need of a permit after Bundesimmissionsschutz-Gesetz (German immission law; BImSchG) or another federal law based

permit – thus including wind energy plants – should still

The introduction of a second

degression stage could mean

a drop in remuneration

for offshore wind energy.

Graphic: windcomm/OWIA


and other coastal "Länder", also proposed a motion to remove the additional degression step for offshore wind energy which the government had added retrospectively (see graphic). However, there was no majority in favour of this.

Two other legal and political issues affect wind energy but with

respect to other laws.

6. Grid connection capacity: The "Bundesrat" proposed transferring grid connection capacities for offshore wind farms for which construction is delayed to other projects which are nearing completion. To this end, a discretionary clause in the Energiewirtschaftsgesetz would be changed into a compulsory regulation. Practical application of this

rule is, however, possible without an amendment to the law.

7. Länderöffnungsklausel (Länder derestriction clause): Bavaria and Sachsen in particular want to amend the Baugesetzbuch (Federal Building Code) so as to be able to determine themselves the minimum distance to be kept between wind energy plants and residential areas. Most other "Länder", including Schleswig-Holstein, reject this idea. Experts think that

this would reduce rather than increase acceptance of wind turbines. There are also concerns that this may cause

constitutional problems as it would restrict the planning autonomy of local authorities. The issue is still under debate.



The new EEG is scheduled to come into effect this summer.

Photo: Birresborn


Tobias Goldschmidt is responsible for the Energy section in Schleswig-Holstein’s Ministry of Energy Transition, Agriculture, the Environment and Rural Affairs (MELUR). This is the central office for all energy policy issues on a ministerial management level. Goldschmidt came to MELUR in 2012 from Berlin, where he worked as a research assistant and consultant for political communication in the German Parliament.

windcomm: Mr. Goldschmidt, the legislative procedure for the EEG reform is already underway. Does the Schleswig-Holstein government have any chance of effecting changes in the draft of the law? Goldschmidt: I think the major points from Schleswig-Holstein’s point of view were already negotiated at the special conference of Minister Presidents in April. The upper limit for onshore wind energy was expanded, in future an expansion of 2,500 MW is permissible without risking any unscheduled reductions in remuneration rates. The reference yield model was also revised to the benefit of wind energy. Negotiations are now only needed on the issue of legitimate expectations, that is to say when is the new law to take effect? I am counting on Parliament and on the insight of the Federal Government that any gains from adjusting the deadline regulation would be far less than the losses incurred if the industry were to lose faith in the reliability of politics. The Bundesrat is supporting Schleswig’s-Holstein’s application. windcomm: Which are the critical issues from the point of view of the Schleswig-Holstein government?Goldschmidt: I have already mentioned the deadline issue. We continue to discuss the "Eigenstromregelung", the self-sufficient electricity regulation, and the specific compensation schemes. We are particularly concerned about whether it is right to charge 50% of the EEG levy on captive use of energy (above 10 kW) from renewable energy sources, whereas captive use of fossil industrial electricity is subject to a consi-derably lower rate and captive use of power station electricity would be subject to no or only a small partial levy. Renewable

"A major challenge to grid and system integration"

Tobias Goldschmidt is responsible for the Energy department in Schles-

wig-Holstein’s Ministry of Energy Transition, Agriculture, the Environment

and Rural Affairs (MELUR). Photo: windcomm/Jensen

energies really ought to be exempt or, at the most, pay a low partial levy. The Federal Government certainly ought to be wary of making particularly high demands on those small and medium-sized companies which install renewable energy plants for their own use. The tender model which the government plans to introduce as of 2017 should be viewed with particular caution.

At the present time, nobody knows how it will work and what exactly is to be put to tender; and yet the government seems fiercely determined to impose it. This will create more, and costly, uncertainty. What we clearly need is technology-specific pilot projects, minimum limits for small farms and a generous transitional scheme. More market is definitely not the wrong method but first we need evidence that the tender scheme really is the more suitable instrument and that this will not shake the basis of the success story "Bürgerenergie" (citizens’ energy). windcomm: Two years ago new land was designated as suitable for wind energy projects. Planning procedures are in place for 800 plants. Have applications come to a halt as a result of the EEG reform? Goldschmidt: Applications have not ground to a halt – at least not yet. A large number of applications are being processed particularly since the new areas were allocated. However, the toing and froing of the last government and especially Altmaier’s electricity price debate last year created an atmosphere of uncertainty among wind plant planners and operators. And uncertainty is expensive because it increases



financing costs. So one and a half year’s electricity price discussion has been as superfluous as you can imagine if you are seriously aiming to reduce the costs of energy transition. windcomm: What is the current situation with respect to the issues which were hampering planning: the protection of birds of prey and the issues with radio beacons and protected monuments? Goldschmidt: All these examples show that energy transition is much more than just a transition to renewable energies. We are talking here about land use and so about a social and geographical transformation process which requires careful consideration of all the different interests. I think we are doing well to look at all the individual cases and not to see everything in black and white.

At the end of the day my impression is that we are going the right way because all parties have remained open to com-promise. As far as species protection goes, individual cases are analysed, the government is rethinking its air traffic safety zones on the basis of our report, and the energy transition will also be anchored in the Denkmalschutzgesetz (Historic Preservation Law).

windcomm: Are there any plans for further wind-turbine areas? Goldschmidt: 1.7% of Schleswig-Holstein’s land area is already designated as suitable for wind turbines. Now we have to ensure that this is put to use because doing so will enable us to produce about 300 % of our gross electricity

consumption from renewables by 2025. This would be equivalent to 8 % of Germany’s electricity needs and represents a major challenge with respect to grid and system integration which we first have to get to grips with. So at the moment whether or not further wind areas are needed or wanted is not really an issue. We have to be aware that the energy transition is going to shape and change our region and that’s why it can only function if it is seen as a project borne by and encompassing all parts of society. windcomm: How does the Schleswig-Holstein government view offshore wind energy?Goldschmidt: Schleswig-Holstein backs offshore wind energy. But we want the energy transition to be a successful model which will be accepted and copied on an international level. For this reason it is important not to let the costs get out of hand. And precisely for this reason it is important for the offshore wind energy sector to show that it also has cost-reduction potential. Learning curves must improve and technology must become less expensive. I think the new EEG will provide a good basis for the wind sector to implement their projects. If large numbers of mills are built, this will generate economies of scale which we badly need.

www.schleswig-holstein.de/MELUR

"A major challenge to grid and system integration"


http://www.schleswig-holstein.de/MELUR/DE/MELUR_node.html


In the last few months Schleswig-Holstein’s Ministry of Energy Transition, Agriculture, the Environment and Rural Areas (MELUR) has presented two studies on renewable energies production in Schleswig-Holstein. These reported that the calculative proportion of Schleswig-Holstein’s total gross electricity consumption provided by green electricity in 2012 was over 70%; in the current year the reports estimate that this will be 100%.

The study "Renewable energies in Schleswig-Holstein from 2006–2012: contribution to supply, greenhouse gas reductions and economic effects’ was prepared jointly by the Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein and the Energy Transition Ministry. For 2013 they predict that the renewables will have a share of 90% in gross electricity consumption.

For the current year Energy Transition Minister, Dr. Robert Habeck, predicts on the basis of another study that the 100% mark will be reached. From a calculative point of view, Germany’s northernmost state will cover its own energy requirements purely from sun, wind and renewable raw materials and so retains its pioneering position among the German "Länder", said Habeck when presenting the report "Analysis of potential and expansion prognosis for renewable energies in Schleswig-Holstein’ which was commissioned by his Ministry and prepared by an engineering company in Hamburg.

On the basis of this study Habeck reckons that in the next ten years Schleswig-Holstein will be able to increase the renewable share of gross energy consumption to at least 300 percent. As the leading wind energy location, Schleswig-Holstein would then cover around 8 percent of Germany’s energy requirements. The study and the resulting expansion expectations will also be the basis for the German Network Agency’s future grid expansion plans. According to the Minister, the major challenges in the next phase of the energy transition will be to integrate dynamic load management, grid-friendly short-term energy storage technologies and power-to-heat applications into the system.

A summary of the "Renewable energies in Schleswig-Holstein from 2006–2012: contribution to supply, greenhouse gas reductions and economic effects’ study is available at:

www.schleswig-holstein.de

The short report "Analysis of potential and expansion prognosis for renewable energies in Schleswig-Holstein’ is available at:

www.schleswig-holstein.de


From 70 to 300 percent

Thanks to repowering and new wind and other renewable energy plants

Schleswig-Holstein already meets a calculative 100% of its own energy

demand with regenerative sources. Photo: Birresborn

http://www.schleswig-holstein.de/Energie/DE/Energiewende/Indikatoren/Versorgungsbeitrag/versorgungsbeitrag_node.html

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In March this year, the Offshore Wind Industry Alliance (OWIA) organised a Parliamentary evening entitled "Offshore. Germany’s wind strength’ at the offices of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern representation in Berlin. It was attended by 300 guests from politics, administration and industry.

The evening began with a political statement by Uwe Beckmeyer, Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and the new Energy Minister in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Christian Pegel. Beckmeyer spoke clearly in favour of 6,5 GW as the offshore expansion goal for 2020 and indicated that it was acknowledged that this will not be achieved by rigid restriction of capacity allocation. Christian Pegel reminded guests that the Federal Government had promised to extend the acceleration model without degression until 2019.

The evening continued with three talks in which the industry showed that offshore wind energy expansion also writes success stories and which formulated clear demands of politicians to enable offshore cost reductions. Jan Rispens, who spoke as representative of the OWIA network, made it very clear how deeply offshore wind energy is anchored in Germany’s industrial value added and elucidated how electricity from wind plants at sea can contribute to the energy economy.

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Parliamentary evening on offshore topics

300 guests attended the

Parliamentary Evening organised

by the Offshore-Wind-Industrie-Allianz

(OWIA) in Berlin. Photo: OWIA


In the course of the wind fair WindEnergy Hamburg (23 to 26 September 2014) the Renewable Energies Cluster Hamburg (Erneuerbare Energien Clusteragentur Hamburg, EEHH) and the network agency windcomm schleswig-holstein will be holding a reception and podium discussion. The date is Tuesday, 23 September, 14:00 to 16:00h and the topics are the innovative skills of the wind energy sector in Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg and the significance of wind energy expansion in Germany. We look forward to greeting the following prominent guests: Hamburg’s Economics Senator Frank Horch, Schleswig-Holstein’s Economics Minister Reinhard Meyer, and top managers Andreas Nauen (Senvion), Dr. Markus Tacke (Siemens) and Dr. Jürgen Zeschky (Nordex). Personal invitations will be sent out before the beginning of the fair.

Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) will again be organising a cooperation exchange for businesses. This will be held on the second and third day of WindEnergy Hamburg. Anyone interested in finding business partners can register free of charge on the "WindMatch" website and enter their company profile so that EEN staff can look for suitable dialogue partners. There are requests for partners from the entire wind energy spectrum, ranging from local authorities and grid operators to e-mobility, fuel cell and storage solutions in the hydrogen technology sector: 24 and 25 September, Hall B7, Conference Room 7.1.

windcomm will be present at the WindEnergy Hamburg at the joint stand organised by the Business and Technology Transfer Corporation (WTSH) for Germany’s northernmost Land. You will find us in Hall B5, Stand number 213.

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Dates and events

Kiel’s Economics Minister Reinhard Meyer (photo, centre) visited windcomm at HUSUM Wind 2012. He will also

be attending a reception by windcomm and the Hamburg Renewable Energies Cluster (EEHH) at WindEnergy

Hamburg. Photo: windcomm/Clorius

Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein to hold reception at the WindEnergy fair


On January 1, 2014 Martina Hummel-Manzau took up the position of Managing Director of the Development Corporation Brunsbüttel (Entwicklungsgesellschaft; egeb) jointly with Dr. Guido Austen. Martina Hummel-Manzau is responsible for the entire business development area, while Dr. Austen is responsible for all technical services. Prior to January they both held the position of Deputy Managing Director for two years.

Martina Hummel-Manzau was born and grew up in Reutlingen and has degrees in Economics (Diplom) and Commercial Law (LLM). After completing her studies in Tübingen she gained national and international experience in business consultancy and project management before becoming Director of the Centre for Applied Technology (Centrum für Angewandte Technologien, CAT) in Meldorf in 2005 and later moving to egeb. She has since had numerous other project and management tasks in the field of business development. egeb: Wirtschaftsförderung is a windcomm project partner and a founding member of windcomm e. V.

windcomm: Ms Hummel-Manzau, what is the role of renewable energies, in particular wind energy, in terms of value added in southwest Schleswig-Holstein?Hummel-Manzau: More than 300 million Euros EEG-remuneration were paid to Dithmarschen and Steinburg in 2011, around half of this for electricity generation from wind energy. But this is only a part of the value added. Renewable energy generation has secured the local district councils an attractive source of corporate tax. Further value added comes

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from project work, installation, maintenance, and administration of the wind energy, biomass and solar energy plants. Here, regional businesses are particularly well represented, covering almost the entire value added chain from foundation to grid connection of a plant. Numerous regional companies provide components for the production of energy plants; external financing is often provided by local or regional credit institutes. windcomm: Are there any new focuses in your business development work in connection with the new EU-funding period from mid-2014/2015? Hummel-Manzau: Our current focus is on the existing, very good and successful projects Frau & Beruf (Women and Careers), Startbahn: Existenzgründung (Start-up: Setting up a Business) and our advisory service in continuing education. Project applications are processed and completed

Commercial law specialist in management

Martina Hummel-Manzau is the

new Managing Director of Bruns-

büttel Development Corporation

(egeb), where she is responsible

for business development. Her

colleague, Dr. Guido Austen, is

in charge of all technical services.

Photo: windcomm/Birresborn

so that, where possible, in the second half of 2014 and in the coming years of the new funding period we will be able to continue to offer the same proven structures in our business development work in Dithmarschen and Steinburg.

Energy efficiency, procuring consultancy services, and talks with companies to create awareness of energy costs and ways of saving energy at work are at the core of the new regional management Industry Energy. Current project development and consultancy is focussed on the areas smart grids/intelligent networks, load management and energy storage technologies. windcomm: Please give some examples for the most important services egeb: Wirtschaftsförderung provides for businesses and entrepreneurs in the wind energy sector in the Lower Elbe region. Hummel-Manzau: In summary, I can say that we support all companies and their contact partners in everything to do with project development and application for subsidies. The issues we deal with range from energy and energy efficiency to staff training and development, business structure and organisation, attracting and retaining skilled staff, and of course also site location assistance.

www.egeb.de


Janina Ipsen is Project Manager at the new Wind Energy Centre of Excellence (Kompetenzzentrum Windenergie Schleswig-Holstein, CE WindEnergy SH) in the Research and Development Centre of Kiel’s University of Applied Sciences (Forschungs- und Entwicklungszentrum Fachhochschule Kiel GmbH, FuE-Zentrum). She has a degree in Business with a focus on Law and studied in Oldenburg (Niedersachsen) and France.

She has been working for the FuE-Zentrum FH Kiel GmbH since 2009. At present she is working on a concept for research cooperation and is responsible for project acquisition. www.windenergy-sh.de

Sophie Jankowski is a project assistant at the CE WindEnergy SH in Flensburg and also works as research assistant at the WindEnergy Technology Institute (WETI) and coordinates the Masters degree course "Windmaster". She studied Energy and Environmental Technology at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg and for her final dissertation (Diplom) did research on the effects of currents in the offshore wind farm Baltic 1.

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The new BWE Board: President, Hermann Albers (centre)

with Vice Presidents, Jan Hinrich Glahr (left) and

Klaus Schulze Langenhorst. Photo: BWE

Janina Ipsen is the new

Project Manager at the

Wind Energy Centre of

Excellence SH.

Photo: private

Sophie Jankowski is

Coordinator for the

Masters degree course

"Windmaster".

Photo: private

New project managers for the Wind Energy Centre of Excellence New leadership at BWE

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After a year’s break, Schleswig-Holstein’s Hermann Albers is again President of the German Wind Energy Association (Bundesverband WindEnergie, BWE). At the delegates’ meeting held at the Hannover Fair in April he was voted in unanimously as President of the BWE and its 20,000 members. He succeeds Sylvia Pilarsky-Grosch who resigned from office for personal reasons. Hermann Albers was previously President of the BWE from 2007 to 2013.

Klaus Schulze Langenhorst from Nordrhein-Westfalen is the new Vice-President. Elke Hanel from Bavaria was elected as Secretary. Hermann Reents from Niedersachsen was elected in a by-election and completes the BWE Board team.

www.wind-energie.de

http://weti.fh-flensburg.de/127.html

http://www.windenergy-sh.de/


New faces at the Maritime Cluster

People

Jörg Polzer is Manager

of the central cluster ma-

nagement for the Maritime

Cluster Norddeutschland in

Kiel. Photo: WTSH

Denise Dede is Project Mana-

ger in the Schleswig-Holstein

office of the Maritime Cluster

Norddeutschland.

Photo: private

New WKN Board

Dr. Jürgen Dambrowski is to

become Chief Financial Officer

of the WKN AG in Husum, part

of the PNE WIND group.

Photo: WKN/ PNE WIND

Jörg Polzer took over the leadership of the central cluster management of the Maritime Cluster North Germany in February 2014. Prior to this, Polzer, who is a physicist, was Divisional Manager for Regenerative Energies at the Deutsche Energie-Agentur Gmbh (German Energy Agency, dena) in Berlin where he was responsible for business and technology funding within the funding programmes of the Federal Minis-tries for Economic Affairs and the Environment and the EU. He also co-chaired the coordinating group of the Export Initiative Renewable Energies in the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Technology. Denise Dede, Project Manager in the Schleswig-Holstein office of the Maritime Cluster Norddeutschland, previously worked in operations management of a medium-sized shipping company in Hamburg, where she wrote her Masters thesis. She completed her BSc in Maritime Traffic, Nautical Science and Logistics at Flensburg University of Applied Sciences and followed this up with a Masters degree in Maritime Management at Jade College in Elsfleth. As part of her course she spent a year at sea, where she gained practical experience on several different types of vessel. www.maritimes-cluster.de

The WKN AG in Husum, part of the PNE WIND Group, is reinforcing its Board. As of 1 July 2014, Dr. Jürgen Dambrowski will be taking over as Chief Financial Officer replacing Michael Ostwald who, as previously announced, will be leaving the company. The Board members Martinus Scherweit (Chairman/Markets & Projects) and Roland Stanze (Purchasing and Sales) remain in their current positions.Originally it was planned that Roland Stanze would assume the function of CFO as of 1 July 2014 after the resignation of Michael Ostwald. Due to changes in market conditions, however, his current field of responsibility (purchasing, sales, project financing and strategic partnerships) will now be concentrated in a separate board function.

Dr. Jürgen Dambrowski, born in 1954, is currently CFO of the paper business area of SURTECO SE and brings extensive finance experience with him.WKN AG has planned, installed and operated turnkey wind farms and solar power systems in Germany since 1990. The company is also active in the international arena and has subsidiaries in numerous European countries, South Africa and the USA. To date, the company has initiated and realised projects with a total capacity of about 1,200 megawatts.The headquarters of the WKN-Group are located in the "House of Future Energies" in Husum which has become established as an innovative centre for renewable energies. 82.75 percent of WKN shares are owned by PNE WIND AG, Cuxhaven, and 17.25 percent are held by private and institutional shareholders. www.wkn-ag.de

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