Climate and economy

According to the European Network for Renewabl Energy the current situation is characterised as follows:

Wind power has made a progress of nearly 30% over the last decade. Remarkable is the dynamic policy and process in Germany, Spain and Denmark.

Biomass Energy is a high potential energy source. Unfortunately the use meets not the pportunities given by this kind of energy. Biomass energy ould make a big contribution to the security of supply.

Solar power is divided into photovoltaic and thermal solar energy. The rate of growth in this sector was 57% in 2004. Nevertheless there are big problems concerning the divulgement caused by high production costs of the components.

At the moment solar heating is more efficient than photovoltaik but the the gowth rate is under the requirements. More political promotion and commercial innovations are needed.

Hydropower is a matured technology and represents about 84% of installed renewable electricity in Europe.

Geothermal energy is an increasing type of energy supply. That is due to new technologies and due to changes on the construction sector. More and more new houses have been built using geothermal heating systems.

You will find more and detailed information on our pages for renewable energy

Statistical datas and studies

There are lots of studies all over Europe concerning the potentials of renewable energies. All studies agreed on high potentials for economic growth, caused by renewables. The following quotation is an example for these results. It was taken from the Energie-Agentur NRW of Germany.

 http://www.ea-nrw.de/_infopool/page.asp?InfoID=1746&find=ium

"Meeting the 20% by 2020 targets would bring along equally important benefits, such as avoided fuel costs of more than € 100 billion, CO2 reductions of over 700Mt/year (representing ca. 17% of 1990 emissions), saved external costs of up to € 300 billion and extra employment of 2 million people.”

There are to many studies and sources to collect all information here. Therefore we give the hint to search for your self using the catchwords

“economic growth by renewable energy Europe”.

All results are in line with the results and opinions overseas, as you can see on the text below, taken from the online journal “Pittsburgh Post Gazette.

“Moving to "a renewable energy economy" would create more than $6 billion in new economic activity, including a $460 million increase in net farm income, and create more then 44,000 new jobs in Pennsylvania, according to a study released yesterday.

The two-year study, conducted by the University of Tennessee, was sponsored by the 25x'25 Alliance, an organization formed to advance the goal of having renewables provide 25 percent of the nation's energy by 2025. The organization has chapters in 15 states, including Pennsylvania.”

 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07228/809842-28.stm

Conclusion

We all should do our best to contribute to a development, leading to a massive increase of the use of renewables.